Oct
10
5:00 PM17:00
TGIF at ZLAC
TGIF at ZLAC
For ZLAC Members and Their Guests
Oct
10
to Oct 19
October 2025 Women's Learn-to-Row
Learn-to-Row Course for Women (18+)
October 10-19, 2025
We’re sorry: This class is now full. If you are still interested in rowing with us, please fill out our Rowing Interest Form, and we’ll notify you whenever a new class is posted on this website. If you have already filled out that form, you will definitely be notified when we post the next class.
About the Class
An introduction to the fundamentals of sculling (each person has two oars, one in each hand) and sweep rowing (each person controls just one oar), as well as safe boat handling. For adult women. Check zlac.org/learn-to-row-masters for more information about our rowing program.
Below are the class session dates. Please plan to attend all sessions.
Friday, October 10 (6:15 - 8:15 pm)
Saturday, October 11 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, October 12 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Saturday, October 18 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, October 19 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Oct
18
1:00 PM13:00
Down and Dirty Mahjong
Down and Dirty Mahjong!
Saturday, October 18, 2025 - 1:00-4:00 pm
Presented by Bam! Beginners American Mahjong and ZLAC Rowing Club.
Curious about mahjong but don’t want to commit to a series of lessons yet? This one-shot intro to the game is for you! Learn the basics and see what the buzz is all about.
We’ll gather at 1:00 for snacks and mingling. Lesson begins promptly at 1:30, so don’t be late!
This is a Crew XII and Crew XIV fundraiser. The class is limited to 24 people.
If there’s a lot of interest, we’ll schedule another class later. If you’d like to be on a waitlist for a future class, please fill out this form.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
Oct
23
6:00 PM18:00
ZLAC Speaker Series: When the Body's Master Clock Goes Rogue
ZLAC Speaker Series
When the Body’s Master Clock Goes Rogue: Optimizing Your Circadian Cortisol Rhythm
Thursday, October 23, 2025 - 6:00-9:00 pm
Presented by Mary E T Boyle, PhD, MPH, Senior Continuing Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Department at UC San Diego.
Evening will include dinner and beverages. Details in the flyer below.
Open to ZLAC members, rowers, and guests.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
Oct
28
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club
ZLAC Book Club — October 28, 2025
For Members and Their Guests
James
by Percival Everett
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
When Jim overhears that he is about to be sold to a man in New Orleans, separated from his wife and daughter forever, he runs away until he can formulate a plan. Meanwhile, Huck has faked his own death to escape his violent father. As all readers of American literature know, thus begins the dangerous and transcendent journey by raft down the Mississippi River toward the elusive and unreliable promise of the Free States and beyond.
Brimming with nuanced humor and lacerating observations that have made Everett a literary icon, this brilliant and tender novel radically illuminates Jim's agency, intelligence, and compassion as never before. James is destined to be a major publishing event and a cornerstone of twenty-first-century American literature.
You don’t have to read the book to attend!
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
The book club includes a rating system!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Oct
1
2:00 PM14:00
ZLAC Pearl Party
ZLAC Pearl Party - CANCELLED
Sunday, October 12, 2025
2:00-4:00 pm
Open to all ZLAC members, rowers, and their guests.
Fundraiser includes wine, sweet treats, and pearl stud earrings.
At the event we’ll also have raffle tickets for sale. The prizes will be selected pearl jewelry pieces, and the proceeds will go to ZLAC Athletics.
See flyer below for more details.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
Sep
30
6:00 PM18:00
Annual Meeting 2025
ZLAC Annual Meeting 2025
Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 6:30 pm
(Doors open and refreshments served at 6:00 pm.)
For ZLAC members only. See details below.
Sep
26
6:00 PM18:00
Bunco at ZLAC
Bunco at ZLAC!
Friday, September 26, 2025
We’ll gather at 6:00 pm for socializing. Game begins promptly at 6:30 pm.
If you've never played, we guarantee you'll enjoy this fast-paced dice game. We'll gather in tables of four, play a round, then switch tables and teammates. It's so fun!
We'll provide full game instructions before we start playing.
Refreshments will include heavy hors d'oeuvres, yummy desserts, wine, beer, and non-alcoholic beverages.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
Sep
24
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club
ZLAC Book Club — September 24, 2025
For Members and Their Guests
Broken Country
by Clare Leslie Hall
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
"Broken Country by Clare Leslie Hall is an unforgettable story of love, loss, and the choices that shape our lives ... but it's also a masterfully crafted mystery that will keep you guessing until the very last page. Seriously, that ending?! I did not see it coming." — Reese Witherspoon
Beth and her gentle, kind husband Frank are happily married, but their relationship relies on the past staying buried. But when Beth's brother-in-law shoots a dog going after their sheep, Beth doesn't realize that the gunshot will alter the course of their lives. For the dog belonged to none other than Gabriel Wolfe, the man Beth loved as a teenager — the man who broke her heart years ago. Gabriel has returned to the village with his young son Leo, a boy who reminds Beth very much of her own son, who died in a tragic accident.
As Beth is pulled back into Gabriel's life, tensions around the village rise, and dangerous secrets and jealousies from the past resurface, this time with deadly consequences. Beth is forced to make a choice between the woman she once was, and the woman she has become.
A sweeping love story with the pace and twists of a thriller, Broken Country is a novel of simmering passion, impossible choices, and explosive consequences that toggles between the past and present to explore the far-reaching legacy of first love.
You don’t have to read the book to attend!
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
The book club includes a rating system!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Sep
12
to Sep 21
September 2025 Women's Learn-to-Row
Learn-to-Row Course for Women (18+)
September 12-21, 2025
We’re sorry: This class is now full. If you are still interested in rowing with us, please fill out our Rowing Interest Form, and we’ll notify you whenever a new class is posted on this website.
About the Class
An introduction to the fundamentals of sculling (each person has two oars, one in each hand) and sweep rowing (each person controls just one oar), as well as safe boat handling. For adult women. Check zlac.org/learn-to-row-masters for more information about our rowing program.
Below are the class session dates. Please plan to attend all sessions.
Friday, September 12 (6:15 - 8:15 pm)
Saturday, September 13 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, September 14 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Saturday, September 20 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, September 21 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Aug
26
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club — August 2025
ZLAC Book Club — August 26, 2025
For Members and Their Guests
North Woods
by Daniel Mason
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
A sweeping novel about a single house in the woods of New England, told through the lives of those who inhabit it across the centuries — a daring, moving tale of memory and fate from the Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Piano Tuner and The Winter Soldier.
When a pair of young lovers abscond from a Puritan colony, little do they know that their humble cabin in the woods will become home to an extraordinary succession of inhabitants. An English soldier, destined for glory, abandons the battlefields of the New World to devote himself to apples. A pair of spinster twins survive war and famine, only to succumb to envy and desire. A crime reporter unearths a mass grave, but finds the ancient trees refuse to give up their secrets. A lovelorn painter, a conman, a stalking panther, a lusty beetle; as each one confronts the mysteries of the north woods, they come to realize that the dark, raucous, beautiful past is very much alive.
Traversing cycles of history, nature, and even literature, North Woods shows the myriad, magical ways in which we’re connected to our environment and to one another, across time, language and space. Written along with the seasons and divided into the twelve months of the year, it is an unforgettable novel about secrets and fates that asks the timeless question, “How do we live on, even after we’re gone?”
You don’t have to read the book to attend!
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
The book club includes a rating system!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Aug
24
11:00 AM11:00
Aug
22
5:30 PM17:30
Paint and Pour at ZLAC - August 22, 2025
Paint and Pour
Friday, August 22, 2025, 5:30 pm
Drinks and snacks will begin at 5:30; painting starts at 6:00.
Admission price includes drinks, snacks, art supplies, and instruction.
Aug
15
5:00 PM17:00
TGIF at ZLAC - August 15, 2025
TGIF at ZLAC
For ZLAC Members and Their Guests
August 15, 2025, 5:00-8:30 PM
Let’s get together! BYOB. Please bring an appetizer or light dinner item to share.
No dishwashing! Susan Wills is hosting and will provide disposable plates, cups, utensils, and napkins.
No RSVP necessary. Just show up, and bring friends!
Aug
8
to Aug 17
August 2025 Women's Learn-to-Row
Learn-to-Row Course for Women (18+)
August 8-17, 2025
WE’RE SORRY: This class has been cancelled.
An introduction to the fundamentals of sculling (each person has two oars, one in each hand) and sweep rowing (each person controls just one oar), as well as safe boat handling. For adult women. Check https://zlac.org/learn-to-row-masters for more information.
Friday, August 8 (6:15 - 8:15 pm)
Saturday, August 9 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, August 10 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Saturday, August 16 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, August 17 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Aug
4
to Aug 7
Teen Girls' Summer Learn to Row Camp
Teen Girls' Summer Learn-to-Row Camp
Grades 6-12
August 4-7, 2025
Monday - Thursday, afternoons 2:30-5:30 pm
We’re sorry - signups for this class have ended. If you have questions about our Juniors program, please email juniors@zlac.org.
Aug
2
11:30 AM11:30
Free Teen Girls' Introduction to Rowing Class
Teen Girls' Introduction to Rowing Class
Grades 6-12
August 2, 2025
Saturday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
There is no charge for this class, but you must register below by adding the class to your cart and checking out. Participants will learn the essentials of rowing both on the water and on the rowing machine. Participants will learn the language of the sport, how to complete the rowing stroke, and how to row with others. After completing the beginning rowing class, participants will be ready to take a full Learn to Row class and/or start as a novice rower in the Juniors Rowing Program.
Contact juniors@zlac.org with any questions.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
Jul
23
9:00 AM09:00
Blood Drive at ZLAC - July 23, 2025
Blood Drive at ZLAC
Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 9:00 am - 7:00 pm
In cooperation with San Diego Lifeguarding Association and American Red Cross!
Donors will receive a free one-topping medium pizza from Papa Johns and a Fandango movie ticket by email (movie ticket details here).
Please click here to schedule an appointment, using the code SDLA to find our blood drive.
Jul
22
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club — July 2025
ZLAC Book Club — July 22, 2025
For Members and Their Guests
This Time Tomorrow
by Emma Straub
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
What if you could take a vacation to your past?
On the eve of her fortieth birthday, Alice’s life isn’t terrible. She likes her job, even if it isn’t exactly the one she expected. She’s happy with her apartment, her romantic status, and her independence, and she adores her lifelong best friend. But her father is ailing, and it feels to her as if something is missing.
When she wakes up the next morning, she finds herself back in 1996, reliving her sixteenth birthday. But it isn’t just her adolescent body that shocks her, or seeing her high school crush—it’s her dad, the vital, charming, forty-something version of her father with whom she is reunited.
Now armed with a new perspective on her own life and his, some past events take on new meaning. Is there anything that she would change if she could?
You don’t have to read the book to attend!
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
The book club includes a rating system!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Jul
21
to Jul 24
Teen Girls' Summer Learn to Row Camp
Teen Girls' Summer Learn-to-Row Camp
Grades 6-12
July 21-24, 2025
Monday - Thursday, afternoons 2:30-5:30 pm
Please register below by adding the class to your cart and checking out. Participants will learn the essentials of rowing both on the water and on the rowing machine. Participants will learn the language of the sport, how to complete the rowing stroke, and how to row with others. After completing the beginning rowing class, participants will be ready to start as a novice rower in the Juniors Rowing Program.
Contact juniors@zlac.org with any questions.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
Jul
19
11:30 AM11:30
Terrace Luncheon - July 19, 2025
Terrace Luncheon
Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 11:30 am
This buffet luncheon will be held on the terrace and patio.
Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests, the event includes a fundraiser silent auction.
Please indicate how many tickets you would like, then click on the “Add to Cart” button below. A popup window will appear where you can complete the purchase. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again.)
Jul
19
9:00 AM09:00
Nutrition for Rowers Presentation at ZLAC - July 19, 2025
Nutrition for Rowers: A Presentation
Saturday, July 19, 2025 at 9:00 am
In the Erg Room, after Saturday practice.
This free session is open to everyone connected with ZLAC. You don’t have to be a rower to attend!
Tim Fitsemons, MS, RDN, CSSD will present. Get your questions answered, and improve your nutrition!
NOTE: This will occur right before the Terrace Luncheon, so please park on the street, leaving the parking lot open for the Luncheon attendees.
Jul
11
to Jul 20
July 2025 Women's Learn-to-Row
Learn-to-Row Course for Women (18+)
July 11-20, 2025
We’re sorry: This class is now full. If you would like to be notified of future Learn-to-Row classes at ZLAC, please take a moment to fill out our Rowing Interest Form, and we will add you to our notification list. Thank you!
An introduction to the fundamentals of sculling (each person has two oars, one in each hand) and sweep rowing (each person controls just one oar), as well as safe boat handling. For adult women. Check https://zlac.org/learn-to-row-masters for more information.
Friday, July 11 (6:15 - 8:15 pm)
Saturday, July 12 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, July 13 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Saturday, July 19 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, July 20 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Jul
11
6:00 PM18:00
Yoga and Happy Hour at ZLAC - July 11, 2025
Yoga and Happy Hour at ZLAC
Friday, July 11, 2025 at 6:00 pm
We’ll gather on the beach at ZLAC for a yoga class taught by ZLAC member Carra Johnson. A happy hour will follow, with light refreshments provided. Everyone should bring a towel to practice on.
This fundraiser is organized by Crew XV. Open to all ZLAC club members and their guests. Bring friends, family members, and fellow rowers!
Please indicate how many tickets you would like, then click on the “Add to Cart” button below. A popup window will appear where you can complete the purchase. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again.)
Jun
24
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club — June 2025
ZLAC Book Club — June 24, 2025
For Members and Their Guests
A Thousand Mornings: Poems
by Mary Oliver
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
In A Thousand Mornings, Mary Oliver returns to the imagery that has come to define her life’s work, transporting us to the marshland and coastline of her beloved home, Provincetown, Massachusetts. In these pages, Oliver shares the wonder of dawn, the grace of animals, and the transformative power of attention. Whether studying the leaves of a tree or mourning her adored dog, Percy, she is ever patient in her observations and open to the teachings contained in the smallest of moments.
Our most precious chronicler of physical landscape, Oliver opens our eyes to the nature within, to its wild and its quiet. With startling clarity, humor, and kindness, A Thousand Mornings explores the mysteries of our daily experience.
You don’t have to read the book to attend!
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
The book club includes a rating system!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Jun
20
5:00 PM17:00
TGIF at ZLAC - June 20, 2025
TGIF at ZLAC
For ZLAC Members and Their Guests
June 20, 2025, 5:00-8:30 PM
Let’s get together! BYOB. Please bring an appetizer or light dinner item to share.
No dishwashing! Susan Wills is hosting and will provide disposable plates, cups, utensils, and napkins.
No RSVP necessary. Just show up, and bring friends!
Jun
9
to Jun 12
Teen Girls' Summer Learn to Row Camp
Teen Girls' Summer Learn-to-Row Camp
Grades 6-12
June 9-12, 2025
Monday - Thursday, mornings 9:00 am - 12:00 noon
Please register below by adding the class to your cart and checking out. Participants will learn the essentials of rowing both on the water and on the rowing machine. Participants will learn the language of the sport, how to complete the rowing stroke, and how to row with others. After completing the beginning rowing class, participants will be ready to start as a novice rower in the Juniors Rowing Program.
Contact juniors@zlac.org with any questions.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
May
31
11:30 AM11:30
Free Teen Girls' Introduction to Rowing Class
Teen Girls' Introduction to Rowing Class
Grades 6-12
May 31, 2025
Saturday, 11:30 am to 2:30 pm
There is no charge for this class, but you must register below by adding the class to your cart and checking out. Participants will learn the essentials of rowing both on the water and on the rowing machine. Participants will learn the language of the sport, how to complete the rowing stroke, and how to row with others. After completing the beginning rowing class, participants will be ready to take a full Learn to Row class and/or start as a novice rower in the Juniors Rowing Program.
Contact juniors@zlac.org with any questions.
Please choose quantity below, then click on the “Add to Cart” button. A popup window will appear where you can complete the registration. (If the popup window doesn’t appear immediately, please refresh the page and click on the button again. If it still doesn’t appear, your browser may have popup windows disabled. You can either enable popups or try again with a different browser.)
May
30
to Jun 8
May-June 2025 Women's Learn-to-Row
Learn-to-Row Course for Women (18+)
May 30 - June 8, 2025
We’re sorry: This class is full. If you would like to be notified when the next Learn-to-Row class is scheduled, please fill out this form. Thank you for your interest!
An introduction to the fundamentals of sculling (each person has two oars, one in each hand) and sweep rowing (each person controls just one oar), as well as safe boat handling. For adult women. Check https://zlac.org/learn-to-row-masters for more information.
Friday, May 30 (6:15 - 8:15 pm)
Saturday, May 31 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, June 1 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Saturday, June 7 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, June 8 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
May
27
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club — May 2025
ZLAC Book Club — May 27, 2025
For Members and Their Guests
The Glass Castle
by Jeannette Walls
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
The Glass Castle is a remarkable memoir of resilience and redemption, and a revelatory look into a family at once deeply dysfunctional and uniquely vibrant. When sober, Jeannette's brilliant and charismatic father captured his children's imagination, teaching them physics, geology, and how to embrace life fearlessly. But when he drank, he was dishonest and destructive. Her mother was a free spirit who abhorred the idea of domesticity and didn't want the responsibility of raising a family.
The Walls children learned to take care of themselves. They fed, clothed, and protected one another, and eventually found their way to New York. Their parents followed them, choosing to be homeless even as their children prospered.
The Glass Castle is truly astonishing--a memoir permeated by the intense love of a peculiar but loyal family.
You don’t have to read the book to attend!
If you're looking to support small businesses, consider shopping locally with Mysterious Galaxy Books, Warwicks Books, La Playa Books, and Bluestocking Books. Most have free or discounted shipping, and in some cases free local delivery. Purchases from Bookshop.org also support small bookstores. This book is also available at the library!
The book club includes a rating system!
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
May
17
5:00 PM17:00
Wine Tasting and Silent Auction at ZLAC
A Wine Tasting and Silent Auction at ZLAC
Saturday, May 17, 2025 - 5:00-8:30 pm
Hosted by Crew XIII at the ZLAC Clubhouse.
Online ticket ordering for this event has ended.
If you are still interested in attending, please email Melanie at nvrfollow@yahoo.com.
Email all other questions to Maureen at tipsymcstaggerz0@gmail.com.
May
9
to May 18
May 2025 Women's Learn-to-Row
Learn-to-Row Course for Women (18+)
May 9, 10, 11, 17, 18, 2025
We’re sorry: This class is now full. Another class begins on May 30, so if you can, please sign up for that one!
An introduction to the fundamentals of sculling (each person has two oars, one in each hand) and sweep rowing (each person controls just one oar), as well as safe boat handling. For adult women. Check https://zlac.org/learn-to-row-masters for more information.
Friday, May 9 (6:15 - 8:15 pm)
Saturday, May 10 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, May 11 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Saturday, May 17 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
Sunday, May 18 (8:30 - 11:00 am)
May
8
6:00 PM18:00
ZLAC Speaker Series: Women's Health, Part 2
ZLAC Speaker Series
The Benefits of Exercise (Beyond the Physical)
Thursday, May 8, 2025 - 6:00-9:00 pm
Presented by Mary E T Boyle, PhD, MPH, Senior Continuing Lecturer in the Cognitive Science Department at UC San Diego.
Evening will include dinner and beverages. Details in the flyer below.
Open to ZLAC members, rowers, and guests.
Online ticket ordering for this event is now closed. Please contact Nora Welshans at zlacnorawelshans@gmail.com if you still want to attend, in case she has a cancellation. Thanks!
May
4
2:00 PM14:00
New Member Reception and Tea
New Member Tea
For ZLAC Members
Sunday, May 4, 2025 at 2:00 pm
Please join us for afternoon tea to welcome, honor, and celebrate our new ZLAC members!
If you plan to attend, please RSVP to membership@zlac.org by April 30.
Apr
22
6:30 PM18:30
Book Club — April 2025
ZLAC Book Club — April 22, 2025
For Members and their Guests
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
by Elif Shafak
Meeting location is the clubhouse. You may bring your own dinner or snack. BYOB.
The book club includes a rating system.
We think it’s fun to know what our ZLAC community thinks of a book! The system is from 1 to 5, with 2.5 being that you would recommend the book with some hesitation. Anything between 2.5 to 5 is how much you liked it. And anything below 2.5 is how much you hated it.
Don't be shy, all views and opinions are welcome! We will collect the scores and average them, then post the ZLAC score in the following month's Eight Oars newsletter.
Can't make the in-person meeting? No problem! Email your score to: carolynw.ca@gmail.com AND valeriekayelewis@gmail.com, and you will be included in the scoring.
Book description from GoodReads.com:
'In the first minute following her death, Tequila Leila's consciousness began to ebb, slowly and steadily, like a tide receding from the shore. Her brain cells, having run out of blood, were now completely deprived of oxygen. But they did not shut down. Not right away...'
For Leila, each minute after her death brings a sensuous memory: the taste of spiced goat stew, sacrificed by her father to celebrate the long-awaited birth of a son; the sight of bubbling vats of lemon and sugar which the women use to wax their legs while the men attend mosque; the scent of cardamom coffee that Leila shares with a handsome student in the brothel where she works. Each memory, too, recalls the friends she made at each key moment in her life - friends who are now desperately trying to find her. . .
You do not need to have read the book to attend!
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