Sep 14, 2017
It’s always fun talking with Tom Wilmer because has such wide-ranging interests—and knowledge! Here we discuss my book, Your Crocodile has Arrived, on Tom’s KCBX Public Radio show, Journeys of Discovery with Tom Wilmer. Tom is a good interviewer, and I...
Aug 15, 2017
I’m delighted that my new book is included in Marin magazine’s “Local Page Turners” column for August! Zack Ruskin writes: You’re sure to find entertainment and illumination in this collection of 21 true stories from noted travel writer...
Jul 17, 2017
Once again, I had a fun afternoon on the air with Lilycat. Good conversation, laughter, and music, and topics including extraterrestrial aliens, Taiwanese soup dumplings, tasting haggis, being impaled by a hawk’s talon, and enjoying a chocolate massage. Listen...
Apr 6, 2017
Elephants are the world’s largest agricultural pests, threatening the livelihoods—and even the lives—of coffee growers in southern India. Of course, the reason for human/elephant conflict is that humans are encroaching on the elephants’ land. I interviewed...
Oct 25, 2016
Wanderland Writers has published another travel anthology, and this one, IMHO, is the best yet. It’s Wandering in Andalusia: The Soul of Southern Spain. The sixteen authors share stories and poems about a country ripe with contradiction: an arid landscape filled...
Jan 15, 2016
Jessica Posner grew up a middle-class American in Denver. She hadn’t seen much of the world, and when she had an opportunity to study overseas she chose to do political theater work in Kenya. Jessica ended up living in a slum with no streets, no toilets, no running...
