It’s a gray day in northern California, and I’m thinking back to my journeys in northern Italy last month. I spent two weeks leading a writing workshop/tour in the Lake Garda region and fell in love wth the area. Imagine you’re sitting at a cafe table in a medieval village on a cobbled square looking [...]
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Next Monday Simon Winchester is coming to town! This completes an extraordinary literary trifecta of Tim Cahill, Pico Iyer and Simon Winchester in less than a week — one more reason why the Bay Area is such a blessed place. Simon will be here to read from and promote his new book “The Man Who [...]
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In March I had the adventure of a lifetime on a cruise in Baja California Sur. The landscapes and seascapes were beautiful, but most transporting of all was a prolonged and very close encounter with a whale baby and its momma in Magdalena Bay. In my story on Don’s Place I call this an “inter-species play date.” [...]
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An abundance of authors! In about three hours I’m leaving to meet with the wonderful Pico Iyer, another longtime friend who is in the Bay Area promoting his new book on the Dalai Lama, “The Open Road.” It’s an incisive, poignant, inspiring book that manages to paint an intricately multi-faceted portrait of the Dalai Lama. Pico [...]
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