Kepler's 2020 Project in the News:
Follow us on Facebook
Events
| Tue | ||
|---|---|---|
Start: 8:00 am
End: 10:00 am
Photo Credit: Stephanie Rausser
Breast Cancer Connections Spring Breakfast Benefit - presenting Ayelet Waldman
Tuesday, April 20, 8:00 - 10:00 a.m.
Sharon Heights Golf & Country Club, 2900 Sand Hill Road, Menlo Park
Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace BUY NOW
Ayelet is a bold author who writes about thought provoking topics regarding her life and family with wit and brutal honesty. She gained notoriety through her confessions in The New York Times style section to loving her husband more than her children. You don’t want to miss this entertaining morning of laughter and celebration. Friends, mothers and daughters, and supporters of Breast Cancer Connections (BCC) are encouraged to attend.
Register online at: www.bcconnections.org/events/fundraisers or call (650) 326-6299 x17. BCC accepts check, cash, VISA and MasterCard.
Questions? Please contact Jill Nelson (650) 326-299, ext.17 | jill@bcconnections.org
Proceeds from the event will benefit Breast Cancer Connections, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization in Palo Alto. BCC provides free services to individuals facing breast cancer, including diagnostic services for young, uninsured women unable to afford these critical procedures.
Start: 5:00 pm
Creating Low Maintenance Gardens: Getting the Right Design
Tuesday, April 20, 5:00 p.m.
Speakers: Julie Orr and Julia Powers
Find out how to avoid the worst design flaws!
Julia Powers has been professionally gardening in the Bay Area and Peninsula for over 20 years. In addition to being a contractor with a successful landscape maintenance company, she has taught at both Gamble Gardens and Common Ground in Palo Alto.
Julie Orr is a landscape designer specializing in lush, water-wise and low maintenance gardens, and a member of the Green Dream Team. Her collaborative design approach ensures your project is done right the first time, which not only removes the stress from planning but also saves you time and money. Her gardens have been called “good for the soul and the environment.”
The Green Dream Team is a group of experts dedicated to providing you with the most comprehensive selection of services to improve, remodel, build, furnish, and landscape your home - always in an eco-friendly and sustainable way.
For information, contact Rich Wingerter at 650-207-8014. www.essentialquality.com
Start: 5:30 pm
Tuesday, April 20, 5:30 p.m.
The Doom Machine by Mark Teague
With surprises around every corner, Teague takes readers on a funny, outrageous adventure when the small, sleepy town of Vern Hollow is invaded by a flying saucer filled with ridiculously inept aliens.
Please bring $2.00 for pizza and drinks. Do let us know if you plan to come, or if you have a question. Contact Megan at megan@keplers.com
Start: 7:00 pm
The Power of Mindful Parenting
Tuesday, April 20, 7:00 p.m.
Parenting from the Inside Out BUY NOW
Mindsight: The New Science of Personal Transformation BUY NOW
Woodside High School Performing Arts Center, 199 Churchill Ave., Woodside
Mindfulness is a powerful tool that can transform lives. When used by parents, it can enhance family relationships, ease tension and deepen communication at home, and even end dysfunctional patterns of behavior. Daniel Siegel is a pioneer in the fields of neuroscience and mindfulness. He’ll offer a step-by-step guide to applying the practice of mindfulness in our own lives, with the goals of improving awareness, self-understanding and harmony within our families.
Dr. Siegel is an associate clinical professor of psychiatry at the UCLA School of Medicine and the Executive Director of the Mindsight Institute. His books include The Developing Mind, The Mindful Brain and Parenting From the Inside Out.
All Common Ground Speaker Series events are free of charge to the parents, faculty and staff of our member schools. Guests from non-member schools are welcome to attend for a $20 fee at the door.
Directions and more information can be found at www.commongroundspeakerseries.org.
Start: 7:30 pm
Terry McDermott
Tuesday, April 20, 7:30 p.m.
101 Theory Drive: A Neuroscientist's Quest for Memory BUY NOW
An obsessive scientist and his eclectic team of researchers race to discover one of the hidden treasures of neuroscience–the physical makeup of memory–and in the process pursue a pharmaceutical wonder drug.
It’s not fiction: Gary Lynch is the real thing, the epitome of the rebel scientist – malnourished, contentious, inspiring, explosive, remarkably ambitious, consistently brilliant. He is one of the foremost figures of contemporary neuroscience, and his decades-long quest to understand the inner workings of the brain’s memory machine has begun to pay off.
Award-winning journalist Terry McDermott spent nearly two years observing Lynch at work and now gives us a fascinating and dramatic account of daily life in his lab. He provides detailed, lucid explanations of the cutting-edge science that enabled Lynch to reveal the inner workings of the molecular machine that manufactures memory. And he explains where Lynch’s sights are now set: on drugs that could fix that machine when it breaks, drugs that would enhance brain function during the memory process and that hold out the possibility of cures for a wide range of neurological conditions, including Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.
Terry McDermott is a former national reporter for the Los Angeles Times and the author of Perfect Soldiers: The 9/11 Hijackers—Who They Were, Why They Did It.
Click HERE to request a signed copy.
Photo Credit: Nelly Min
| ||
