Richard Mahler
Writer, Editor, Stress Reduction Teacher, and Media Consultant

Excerpts from Articles by Richard Mahler

Since becoming a freelancer in the early 1970s, Richard Mahler has written thousands of articles on scores of subjects for hundreds of publications. Over the years, he has specialized at various times in writing about media, the arts, health, nature, travel, Latino affairs, indigenous cultures, and personal transformation. Richard has been a newspaper columnist, a newsletter and magazine editor, Internet contributor, public relations writer, fact-checker, photographer, and researcher. In addition, he has written hundreds of scripts for public radio programs and dozens of advertisements for businesses. This page offers a broad sampling of his writing for radio, newspapers, magazines, and clients. Other samples are available on request.

Click on the links below to read excerpts from some of Richard's articles. Other excerpts from his writing may be linked from the What's New and Books pages.

• "Addiction Transfer & Mindfulness "
  From eMindful.com, May/June/July 2008
  
  
• "Redwoods and Ruins at Mount Madonna"
  From Bay Nature, July/September 2007
  
  
• "Jaguar: Great Cat of the Americas"
  From Native Peoples, September/October 2007
  
  
• "Land and Legacy "
  From North Bay Business Journal; April 17, 2006
  
  
• "Media Coverage of the Vietnam War"
  From Jele News, February 2006
  
  
• "Deep Sea Delights"
  From Santa Cruz Sentinel, March 2006
  
  
• "Sharman Apt Russell: Her Life as a Pantheist"
  From Desert Exposure, August 2008
  
  
• "Grandpa Munster: One of a Kind"
  From Los Angeles Daily News; February 8, 2006
  
  
• "Tony Hillerman: Writer of the Colorado Plateau"
  From Earth Notes, August 2007
  
  
• "Catching Rain on Mount Tamalpais"
  From Marin Municipal Water District, April 2008
  
  
• "Gordon Hempton Listens to the World"
  From Albuquerque Journal, July 2008


• "Grenada: Spice Island Redux'"
  From Crosswinds Weekly, March 2002
  
  
• "I Read the News Today, Oh Boy..."
  From Utne, May/June 2005
  
  
• "On the Waterfront: Eight Painters Capture the Mutable Nature of Water in their Art"
  From Southwest Art, October 2003
  
  
• "Summertime and the Livin' Is Easy... Or Is It?"
  From Enough, Summer 2004
  
  
• "Going Nuts for Nuts"
  From Alternative Medicine, February 2005
  
  
• "Too Many Tamales"
  From Santa Fean magazine, April 2002
  
  
• "Soak in the Silence"
  From Body&Soul, November/December 2003
  
  
• "Meditating on Sound"
  From Yoga Journal, May 2004
  
  
• "Jaguars in Arizona?"
  From Arizona Highways, March 2005
  
  
• "Restoring Homelands"
  From Land&People, April 2004
  
  
• "Self-Love in Hard Times"
  From The Eldorado (NM) Sun, January 2004