Love Letters Live

Emilio Palame has turned his prodigious talents to the production of the upcoming movie Forty-Seven Days With Jesus. Emilio is a musician with a stunning history of accomplishment as pianist, composer, arranger and many years as Peggy Lee’s musical director. He has a long history as a highly regarded actor, director and writer as...

Author Barbara Rose is the author of many books in which deeply held honesty is kind of a central character all its own. She has always been fearless in expressing herself with candor, wit, and a chummy indifference to whether people like what she says or not. She seems to delight in saying things that most people...

Donnie Demers has had a charmed life with a loving family, childhood performing, and success after success until the multi-platinum record days in France. His began playing the piano at the age of four, but his first entry into performance was when he became the poster child for the Muscular Dystrophy Association and joining his aunt, a...

America’s first gay disco, a Los Angeles club that saw over a thousand gleeful men a night dancing at Studio One where gay men could feel safe being themselves. Leaving this history to memory is risky; memory fades and when those carrying the clearest of impressions pass away, there is no on to turn to for...

Walking tours can reveal hidden mysteries and secrets. So does finding a staggering motherlode of information in 8,000 family letters she found all written in the early 1900s. More mysteries and secrets to share. Nancy Botkin leads tours for WALK SAN FRANCISCO sometimes up lesser known paths sometimes up lesser trod paths. But, either...

  It can change human existence for the better, but in the wrong hands has the potential to be deadly and could put an end to life on earth. “The New Roaring Twenties,” by Paul Zane Pilzer and Stephen Jarchow, available now at book-stores, is a fascinating guide to surviving and prospering in our...

Actor Michael McHale faced and triumphed over two enormous challenges in his life; a T-cell count of 4 and finding out who his birth father was. Michael’s life has been more complicated than most people could imagine. For some mysterious reason Michael recovered from AIDS. When he found out he had only 4 T-cells, he...

Reverend Steve Pieters has survived AIDS for decades. He was the first gay man with AIDS to be interviewed by Tammy Faye Bakker, and says that he has been amazed at how those 25 minutes he spent with Tammy Faye have reverberated through his life, more than almost anything else he has done. He says so many...

The Valley of the Moon Music Festival in Sonoma California is so unique that it is hard to know where to begin. Ditto regarding the president of its Board of Directors Kimberly Blattner who was not raised with classical music but whose passion for it now has guided much of what she does. She says that...

Love laundry? Christian Sanya turned it into a very lucrative business to fulfill her long standing dream of owning her own laundromat. She works in a science lab, but wanting to augment her income she thought of offering to fold laundry. People came running in droves, and soon enough she was doing the whole laundry load for...

Samantha Brenner has learned a lot about dating because she has been dating with her heart and her eyes open for many years now. Different in her 20s than now in her 30s? You bet. She brings to her works in a business world the same strong focus on the human element that she brings...

Remember Roy Rogers and Dale Evans? Julie Rogers Pomilia does and is here to tell us their reality and what it was like growing up as their granddaughter. Roy and Dale were the biggest Western duo to hit the screen in days gone by. No one like them. Actually. Their reach and...

When the Easter Seals Disability Film Challenge and Executive Producer Penni Wilson join forces with other major talents, this year’s result is Kryptonite, a very short movie with the feel of a full length feature. A movie that has left so many people wanting more, wanting a series, wanting to stay in touch with the two main characters...

Do we remember the bullies in our lives forever? Adam Sherman is back to talk about bullying and kindness and the lasting power each of those holds. To be living as a youth on the autism spectrum can pose conquerable challenges, but facing bullies should not be one of them. How Adam dealt with friends who turned against...

Photographer Johanna Siegmann has documented the love between people and their pets in her beautiful, lavish, fun-filled book of incomparable images of notable people with their pets. And, February 20th was Love Your Pet Day. Well, really what day is not? What do you know about a person with a pet. Lots!  People with their...

Terri Jay, a medium, a medical intuitive, an animal communicator (yes, a horse-whisperer), author on the subject and so much more. She takes her ability as unremarkable, sees no real mystery in it, simply, as she says, picks up on higher vibrations or frequencies  Her conviction is that everyone is born with the same capacity for...

The Middle East Peace Process is alive and well in the hands of School Principal Mohammad Kundos, his colleagues, students and their parents. While governments are sputtering along trying to bring an end to hatred among conflicting factions, Mohammad Kundos, a Muslim from a religious family spends his days at Hand In Hand school fostering understanding, love and...

Rescuing old, stray, abandoned and sometimes abused dogs is what Sherri Franklin does. She is on duty every day finding them loving homes, saving them from euthanasia, providing the most loving and tender hospice care to minimize their suffering. And, if she cannot find an adequate and compassionate foster home quickly, well, she takes them into her...

Living Beyond Normal An Autistic Autobiography is more than Adam Sherman’s life story. It is, as he says, a story bigger than he is. With honesty and candor he takes on the task of vanquishing the many misconceptions of autism. What drove him to write this book was sudden connection of Black Lives Matter...

When a boy on the spectrum and his teacher were unable to understand each other, what should the teacher have done?  Steve Spitz, the one neurodivergent boy in his class has some valuable thoughts on this. Granted, Steve was in grammar school decades ago when a student whose mind seemed to be wandering left teachers in a...