Sheff’s book investigates America’s drug problem and the disease of addiction, calling them the greatest public health challenges of our time.

Point Reyes Books is workshop bookseller.

Just as we can use maps of the world to get where we want to go, so too can we use maps of the mind to show us how to become who we were meant to be.

Spend the whole day exploring the landscape of the wild mind with Bill Plotkin as he takes us through soulcraft practices such as creative expression, solo exercises while wandering on the land, voice dialogue, journaling, and deep imagery.

Whether you think you have enough money or too little, whether you “manage” your money or ignore it-underneath most people’s thoughts and behaviors are often powerful feelings about money. These feelings, usually ignored, can become valuable resources for navigating through our money lives when we give them proper attention.

Part clinician, part ecologist, and part anthropologist, Daphne Miller, M.D., approaches medicine with the idea that opportunities for health and healing are found not only in the medical system but in such unexpected places as home kitchens, school gardens, community organizations, spiritual centers, nature trails, and farms.

Just picture it! Malcolm Margolin, founder and executive director of Heyday, a nonprofit press devoted to California’s cultural and natural history, in conversation with Wendy Johnson, Buddhist meditation teacher, organic gardening mentor, and author of Gardening at the Dragon’s Gate.

6:00pm - Dinner

7:30pm - Event

In her new book, The Faraway Nearby, a fitting companion to her much-loved A Field Guide to Getting Lost, Rebecca explores the ways we make our lives out of stories, and how we are connected by empathy, by narrative, by imagination.

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee will speak about his new book, Spiritual Ecology: The Cry of the Earth. For the past few years he has been writing and lecturing about the need for a spiritual response to our present ecological crisis.

Writing By Writers is excited to announce that registration for the 2013 Writing Workshop at Tomales Bay in Marin County, California is now open.