The Next Chapter: Retirement
Each month we invite speakers to come and share their expertise on issues around retirement, health and wellness, Medicare, social security, online security, brain fitness, personal finance, and a myriad of other interesting topics. Drop-in, no registration.
Shark Attack and Other Mishaps, with Peller Marion
“I am going to die!” That was my first thought when the 18 foot, three thousand pound tiger shark attacked me in the waters of Maui. Being savaged and nearly killed by a shark was an adventure I never saw coming, and was one that forced me to discover reserves of strength and courage that I never knew I had.”
One out of ninety-eight million people are attacked by a shark. The author was one of them.
In early May of 2007, Peller Marion was savaged and nearly killed by an eighteen-foot, three-thousand-pound tiger shark in the waters off Kihei, Maui. After it occurred, this shark attack was a human-interest story that generated national and international attention and played out publicly on television and in newspapers. But her recovery, both physical and emotional, has been a very private process–one she chronicles in Shark Attack and Other Mishaps.
This is a story about how she survived, the ordeal she went through, and how it revealed other life changing events.
The opening narrative, from which the title is taken, establishes the central preoccupations: the difficulty of recognizing one’s mortality, the yearning to make sense out of the puzzle pieces of one’s life, and the poignancy and yearnings of a long-time marriage.
Peller’s past includes climbing Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, racing motorcycles, and working as a Gestalt Art Therapist. She is the author of several books, including Crisis Proof Your Career, Career Tune Up, and the novels Searching for the G Spot and Shopping Lessons.
Dr. Peller Marion is a corporate psychologist in San Francisco. She specializes in guiding executives through personal and professional transitions and corporate teams through difficult real-time leadership issues.
Put on your hat and gloves and join us at Falkirk Cultural Center for an afternoon trivia contest and tea party celebrating the release of the new Downton Abbey movie.
Sign up to reserve a spot (alone or with a group) at either of our settings by calling the library at (415) 485-3321.
Put on your hat and gloves and join us at Falkirk Cultural Center for an afternoon trivia contest and tea party celebrating the release of the new Downton Abbey movie.
Sign up to reserve a spot (alone or with a group) at either of our settings by calling the library at (415) 485-3321.
Three California Poet Laureates will read poems on social justice. This event will be hosted by Ron Riekki, co-editor of Undocumented: Great Lakes Poets Laureate on Social Justice
Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate 2017-present
Caroline Goodwin, San Mateo County Poet Laureate 2014-2016
Rafael Jesús González, Berkeley Poet Laureate 2017-present
The date for this talk was originally November 13. It has been rescheduled to Monday, December 2, 6:30 – 8:00 pm.
The Economics of Immigration
Immigration is one of the most visible policy issues today. It is also an issue that is fraught with misunderstanding. There is a popular understanding that immigration comes at significant cost to society. These costs are in the form of jobs for citizens, impacts on federal, state, and local budgets, and crime. Behind most of these notions is a kernel of truth, but the reality is that immigration is much more benign than is commonly thought and poses no significant drain on government resource. Quite the contrary, immigration may well be a part of the solution to pressing policy issues.
Jon Haveman, Ph.D is Executive Director of the National Economic Education Delegation (NEED), a San Rafael nonprofit. He is also CEO of EconSpeak.org. He is a man on a mission to make economic policy literacy relevant and real.
The date for this talk, November 13 has been cancelled.
It is rescheduled to Monday, December 2, 6:30 – 8:00 pm.
The Economics of Immigration
Immigration is one of the most visible policy issues today. It is also an issue that is fraught with misunderstanding. There is a popular understanding that immigration comes at significant cost to society. These costs are in the form of jobs for citizens, impacts on federal, state, and local budgets, and crime. Behind most of these notions is a kernel of truth, but the reality is that immigration is much more benign than is commonly thought and poses no significant drain on government resource. Quite the contrary, immigration may well be a part of the solution to pressing policy issues.
Jon Haveman, Ph.D is Executive Director of the National Economic Education Delegation (NEED), a San Rafael nonprofit. He is also CEO of EconSpeak.org. He is a man on a mission to make economic policy literacy relevant and real.
Economic inequality, whether measured by income or wealth, is at levels not seen in nearly 100 years.
Dr. Jon Haveman will explore trends in inequality, the sources of growing inequality, explore the potential implications, and discuss policies that might address issues of growing inequality.
There are a variety of policies that can be pursued that would reduce inequality. The appropriate policy is in direct response to the particular causes. Though there is no single cause, there are a variety that are not on the public’s radar. International trade and immigration, for instance, play a relatively small role.
Jon Haveman, Ph.D is Executive Director of the National Economic Education Delegation (NEED), a San Rafael nonprofit. He is also CEO of EconSpeak.org. He is a man on a mission to make economic policy literacy relevant and real.
For nearly two years, the United States has been aggressively using international trade policy to achieve its foreign policy goals. With no country is this exercise of power more clear than with China.
In this talk, we will discuss the various forms of trade policy that are being used and the likely economic implications.
Do tariffs create more jobs than they destroy?
Do they actually work for getting other countries to change their behavior?
What are the distributional implications?
Jon Haveman, Ph.D is Executive Director of the National Economic Education Delegation (NEED), a San Rafael nonprofit. He is also CEO of EconSpeak.org. He is a man on a mission to make economic policy literacy relevant and real.
Jon has more talks coming up at the library:
Wednesday, October 23 at 6:30 on Economic Inequality
Wednesday, November 13 at 6:30 on The Economics of Immigration.
This powerful and provocative presentation focuses on art made in the pivotal decades between 1963 and 1983, when issues of race and identity dominated and defined both public and private discourse. Rarely has an historical exhibition proved to be so timely—and to provoke so much meaningful discussion among its numerous viewers.
The works in Soul of a Nation were forged in a crucible of institutionalized racism and codified prejudice that had pervaded the entire American nation for centuries. Galvanized to take action, and inspired by the Civil Rights struggle for equality and justice, African American artists determined to use art and culture as catalysts for self-definition, self-empowerment, and self-determination.
The artists represented in Soul of a Nation worked in numerous cities across the United States and in multiple media. The de Young’s presentation of Soul of a Nation will include an expanded group of works by artists who worked in the Bay Area. Their paintings, drawings, prints, photographs, collages, assemblages, and custom clothing contributed to the Black Power movement by promoting personal and cultural pride, collective solidarity and empowerment, political and social activism, and pan-African nationalism. Long marginalized, these revelatory works and the enduring relevance of their messages are now understood to be central to the complex histories of American culture.
Kim Shuck, San Francisco Poet Laureate 2017-present
Rafael Jesús González, Berkeley Poet Laureate 2017-present
