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A conversation with Bridget Crocker, author of the new book, The River’s Daughter

A conversation with Bridget Crocker, author of the new book, The River’s Daughter

by Admin | May 27, 2025 | Events, Featured

Tuesday, June 17, 2025, 6 pm, Book Passage, Corte Madera, free! As a fellow longtime whitewater raft guide, I share Bridget’s love for rivers and appreciate how moving water can teach us and heal us. I’m thrilled that Bridget asked me to join her in conversation for...
A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of the new book, Art Above Everything

A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of the new book, Art Above Everything

by Admin | May 27, 2025 | Events, Featured

Thursday, July 17th, 2025, 6pm, Book Passage, Corte Madera, free! For young people it can be easy to be idealistic and devote ourselves to art. Then reality — and responsibilities — set in. As a friend said to me shortly after we graduated from college, “Life costs...
Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, August 14-17, 2025

Book Passage Travel Writers and Photographers Conference, August 14-17, 2025

by Admin | Jul 18, 2022 | Events, Featured

This four-day seminar has opened the gates to aspiring and working travel writers and photographers for three decades. Shapiro attended the first conference in 1992 and went on to write for the San Francisco Chronicle, Washington Post and National Geographic. Beyond...
Sierra magazine: Gas leaf blowers are shrill. They pollute. Does it have to be this way?

Sierra magazine: Gas leaf blowers are shrill. They pollute. Does it have to be this way?

by Michael Shapiro | Dec 7, 2021 | Blog, Environment, Featured, Stories

As a teenager, I awoke every Friday morning at 7am to the shattering sound of our next-door neighbor’s leaf blowers, robbing me of those last precious moments of sleep before school started. I’ve long despised these unnecessary machines for their...
National Geographic, December 2020: In remote Nepal, new roads bring opportunity and perils

National Geographic, December 2020: In remote Nepal, new roads bring opportunity and perils

by Admin | Aug 5, 2022 | Blog, Featured, Stories, Travel

In October, 2018, my wife and I joined a group of trekkers led by Jamling Tenzing Norgay, the son of Tenzing Norgay, who in 1953 was the first person (along with Ed Hillary) to reach the top of Mount Everest. For our trek in the Kingdom of Mustang, which borders...
National Geographic: How the mystique of Wales gave strength to legendary writer Jan Morris

National Geographic: How the mystique of Wales gave strength to legendary writer Jan Morris

by Admin | Jul 5, 2024 | Featured, Stories, Travel

My editors at National Geographic made it clear to me that they did not want a personal reminiscence about Jan Morris after she died on November 20, 2020. They wanted a piece about Jan’s deep and abiding connection to her adopted home, Wales. She was half Welsh and...
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  • A conversation with Bridget Crocker, author of the new book, The River’s Daughter
  • A conversation with Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of the new book, Art Above Everything
  • Why Time Flies: An inquiry into why time feels like it accelerates as we get older, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2025
  • Climber with colon cancer seeks to summit Half Dome to raise awareness for screening, Press Democrat, Aug. 1, 2024
  • Journey Toward Everest: Trekking with the son of Tenzing Norgay to Everest Base Camp, Saturday Evening Post, Jan-Feb 2024
  • Lukas Nelson: Don’t ask him about his famous father, Press Democrat, Feb 2024
  • River Rights Gone Wrong, California water resources a source of conflict, Sierra magazine, Spring 2023

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