Richard Mahler is...
- the New Mexico-based author or co-author of eleven published books on travel,
self-transformation, nature, social trends, and cooking. He's recently completed a book about the New World's biggest cat, entitled The Jaguar's Shadow: Searching for a Mythic Cat, to be published in 2009 by Yale University Press. Forthcoming later this year is San Francisco Memories, a travel-recipe book from Life Press featuring 17 signature recipes from top San Francisco restaurants. In September, 2007, Fairview Press published a revised edition of his critically-acclaimed book with Connie Goldman, Secrets of Becoming a Late Bloomer: Staying Creative, Aware, and Involved in Midlife and Beyond.
- an independent journalist who has contributed thousands of articles to
hundreds of publications including the Los Angeles Times,
Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Daily News, Christian Science Monitor, Miami Herald, San Francisco Chronicle, Albuquerque Journal, Toronto Globe & Mail, Houston Chronicle, Planeta.com, Alternative Medicine, LA Weekly, In These Times, E/The Environment Magazine, Native Peoples, EcoTraveler, Arizona Highways, New Mexico, Land & People, Outside, Mother Jones, Ms., Southwest Art, Utne, Yoga Journal, and Body & Soul Richard writes the "Southwest Storylines" column for Desert Exposure monthly.
- a teacher-facilitator in Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction,
an 8-week course utilizing secular meditation, body-scan, and yoga techniques, pioneered by Dr. Jon Kabat-Zinn of the Stress Reduction Clinic of the University of Massachusetts Medical School. Richard has taught stress reduction at hospitals, prisons, colleges, and health education programs in New Mexico and California.
- a media consultant who writes, edits, and strategizes
for commercial and nonprofit entities as well as individuals. Richard's clients have included Vallecitos Mountain Refuge, William James Association, Dr. Stacey Austin, Santa Cruz County Literacy Center, Mindful Living Programs, Utne Reader, Bilingual Broadcasting Foundation, and Upaya Institute. After a career as a disc jockey, Richard was a news, feature, and commentary producer in Los Angeles for FM stations KPFK, KUSC, KCRW, KXLU, and KLON as well as California Public Radio. Richard was a free-lance reporter, commentator, and critic for National Public Radio from 1975-1990. He's a past member of the board of directors of Good Radio Shows, Inc., which produces Peace Talks and other programs (www.goodradioshows.org).
- an editor whose portfolio includes work for the Gila Resources Information Project, Quivira Coalition, Trust for Public Land, Conservation Fund, and
Susan Ives Communications as well as John Muir Publishing, Stony Creek Publications, eMindful.com, and Native Peoples magazine.
Communication invited via P.O. Box 1055, Silver City, NM 88062
This site was last updated on September 25, 2008.
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