Listen to Adair Lara!

Adair Lara began her career as a writer in local magazines—first San Francisco Focus, the city magazine, and then the design magazine SF. 
In 1989 The Chronicle offered Lara a position as columnist, a position that lasted for 12 years. Adair has published ten books, including several collections of columns, and several to do with teaching. 
Her work has appeared in Cosmopolitan, Reader’s Digest, Parenting, Glamour, Redbook, Ladies’ Home Journal, American Woman, Departures, Westways, American Way, Via, Fitness, Good Housekeeping, and many other magazines and newspapers.