Love Letters Live

  Myrna is back because we had more to say about the worldwide obsession with hair. Turns out there is never enough time to exhaust the topic because in addition to everything else about hair, there is the entertainment world in which hair takes, yes, starring roles. You remember the rock opera Hair, one of the all-time greats with hair...

Danielle DiSalvo’s love-tree is in full bloom, laden with messages from those hopeful for a better world and who want to encourage the power of love. Danielle has been tending this tree in front of her house for some time, and she invites all who want to add their voices; she has pens and tags on site ready for...

Roslyn Kind, even with her incomparable talent, exquisite voice and beauty to match, never puts herself in the center of the universe even though she hopes to reach every corner of it with light and love. Roslyn grew up singing; the whole family sang. Singing was more or less a standard way of communicating, and her grandfather was a...

Most all the world knows Alison Arngrim as, yes, you know who, because that little house there on the prairie, would not have been half as much fun without that corkscrew-curled wretch Nellie Oleson who thought she owned the town of Walnut Grove. How does a lovely, kind, compassionate, aware child know how to bring the meanness of Nellie...

Eubie Blake was a most forgiving man who functioned amid horrible racism that showed its ugly face everywhere he turned. But, genius as he was and devoted to the music, he plugged right on with full knowledge that he was a professional. Eubie Blake, son of former slaves, was born in 1887 and by the time he was about...

    Hair? It isn’t just hair. It is at best our crowning glory. At worst it has been the battleground for some of the most gut-wrenching racial battles. Hair has been the focal point of generational skirmishes that pitted parents and children against each other. Hair has served for political stances where victory has been often declared and...

Ken Bloom has done so much in the world of theater and music that it is hard to believe he is not twice his age. But, done it all he has. He is a theater historian, playwright, director, record producer, and author. He has co-produced and directed a series of musicals and musical revues including Sirocco, Bride of Sirocco (which transferred to...

David Zimmerman is an excellent and experienced actor, a fabulous singer who can steal a scene and, watch out, will steal your heart. He is overloaded with talent, charm, stage presence, and two other qualities that tip the balance on how he spends his professional time. Those two qualities are love and generosity in heaping amounts. With all he...

Mark Anthony is an Oxford educated trial attorney licensed to practice before the Supreme Court and well known fourth generation evidential psychic medium who communicates with spirits. He brings science-based theories of energy to his work. Complicated? You bet. You may know him from his regular appearances on television and radio shows. And, you may know his books, the latest...

Liz Maguire was raised as a regular at flea markets, and one in particular led to her Flea Market Love Letters. As a teen-ager Liz found a box of turn of the (last) century letters. She had already spent the first $20 her mother gave her to keep her flea market occupied, but when she saw these she pleaded...

Emperor Joshua Norton came to San Francisco at the age of 30 from Capetown where he was raised. He arrived with what would be today a fortune of $1,000,000. He had known great business success in San Francisco until he made one wrong move and lost everything. He disappeared for a couple of years; no one knew where he...

Anita Hollander, Broadway star, first took to the stage at the age of 4. Unstoppable; she was not even on the program but walked right up on to the stage and gave the audience a performance from “Guys and Dolls”.  Yes, she walked up as if she belonged there. Which, of course, she did. She always knew she was meant...

Terri Dora Wong looks like a work of art on any given day. As a fashion desinger and restorer of vintage items, for Terri, it is never even the chicest of jeans; it is always the most glamorous of Chinese fashion whether she has created it from scratch or redisgned something existing. The miracle is not just her artistic genius...

Nic Novicki is known on six continents for his work as an actor, comedian and producer of several feature films, television pilots and web series, and through Armed Forces Entertainment has toured for the US troops. A few of his television roles include Boardwalk Empire, The Sopranos, The Good Doctor (give a click you’ll be happy you did)...

Yes, that is what they called us at the station for years when Love Letters Live was on the radio. The two of us, the Love Letter Squad. We are together again, Tresa and I, for this conversation about writing love letters to the dying and to those people we love who have left this earth and sometimes left us...

If you have not told your mother how much you love her while she was here on earth with you, is it too late to tell her after she is gone? Not at all. Karen Moss Hale of Newclevelandradio talks about her love letter written after her mother died. This was not an easy task for her, but she...

The US Post Office has been working for us, has been our servant, our bond and our consoler since the colonists establishment it in 1639, needing help as they did sending letters back to England. Messengers have always been critical to the survival of any society. Century after century, decade after decade, day after day through wars, depressions, pandemics,...

William May has spent 34 years as the head doorman at the Fairmont Hotel, and with the hotel closed due to coronavirus, his life has changed drastucaly. He has always been a man with his heart, mind and eyes open to possibilities, so as each presented itself when he least expexted it, he dove right in. William is, at his...

Something awful has happened in America. Factions of the left and the right seem to be at a low-level tribal war. Hatred runs high and it does not take much to trigger it. Too may people are frightened and seeing threats where they do not really exist, and it is letting that senseless hatred run rampant that is the...