Richard Mahler

writer, editor, tour guide, and stress reduction teacher

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


• My essay on the importance of preserving silence in nature has been published in a timely anthology entitled Thrillcraft: The Environmental Consequences of Motorized Recreation by the Foundation for Deep Ecology (Chelsea Green Books, Fall 2007). Read an excerpt here.
  
  
• "Land and Legacy "
  From North Bay Business Journal; April 17, 2006
  
  
• "Media Coverage of the Vietnam War"
  From Jele News, February 2006
  
  
• "Defender of Quiet Places"
  From Christian Science Monitor, February 27, 2009
  
  
• "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
  
  
• "In and Around the Cayo District of Belize "
  From Americas magazine, July-August 1991
  
  
• "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
  
  
• "Santa Fe Indian Market: Lifetime Achievement Awards "
  From Southwest Art, August 2000
  
  
• "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