Love Letters Live

For Claire Dobie, clear thinking is paramount. She, like many women, can hardly keep track of the articles about what men want. This topic is an industry in its own right and a cash cow for popular magazines. Married, partnered or single, younger or older, it peaks women’s curiosity. Suggestions abound about what to do to attract a man...

Contacting sweethearts from our past can be a challenge; locating them, gathering the courage it takes to call someone who was once an intimate part of your life, knowing that a suspicious gate-keeper wife may be the one to answer the phone and finding just the right tone of voice. That challenge pails next to the task of contacting...

Ever been called out by someone for talking to yourself? Ever catch yourself talking to yourself or, worse, laughing out as you amble down the street all by your little lonesome? What do you do?  Personally, I just struggle to stifle the laughter (makes me laugh harder) and hope that no one with a cell-phone is dialing an emergency...

Allen Klein has made it his life’s mission to bring laughter and comfort to people who range from mild to severe stress, who have suffered devastating loss, or just need a smile or some wisdom on an ordinary day. He helps people lighten up; he is permission to laugh. He was a boy who loved Broadway, attended Yale...

You most likely know Hank Garrett in the role of Officer Ed Nicholson of the popular 60’s sit-com Car 54 Where Are you?” It would be hard to conceive a fictional character that even comes close to Hank’s actual life. He has traveled such a labyrinthine path from childhood to film-stardom you might wonder how he ever stayed on the...

  Actor, playwright and producer Terry Ray got where he is by joyfully jumping right in where he wanted to be. You may know him from his movie roles. Or you may know him from Electricity , his original play that tells the story of a romance between 2 men who met at a 10 year high school reunion (one...

Sellassie Blackwell is devoted to creating changes in this world through his work as an independent hip-hop artist pioneer with an eye toward bringing independent artists together and as a seriously committed community activist intent on giving rise to social changes . His music is a vehicle for inspiration, and he is very clear that it is more important...

Ruthie Darling. And, that is the word that would describe her best. Her mother, in countless moments of extreme affection and appreciation for her daughter, always called her Ruthie, darling. After years as a grade school teacher, Ruthie turned to writing children’s books (yes, for all ages). She knew herself best as Ruthie Darling, so just took that name...

  Michele Musy is one of the truly blessed women of the world with an enormous capacity to enjoy life to its fullest. She knows when romance is in the air, and she has the spirit to seize the moment with all it has to offer. She shares her romantic life with remarkable openness and courage starting from her...

Rob Karlovich is an inventor. Always was. As the third youngest in a family of nine children, he could not always have the toys he wanted, so he searched the basement for cast-off materials from which he could make those toys. He was the little boy who knew how to take the things apart and put them back together...

Sterling Mire knew by the time she was three years old that she had questions that would be answerable only by her own insights. This was the first step she took onto the path that led her from a successful acting and music career to guiding others onto their most constructive paths because she learned early in her life...

Mermaids? For real? Now we know the answer is a joyful yes and the sightings have been confirmed. Mahogany Mermaids, a swim team that personifies the same qualities of charm, glamour and beauty that have been attributed to mermaids for thousands of years. The Mahogany Mermaids was formed years ago to bring Black women (well, there is now one...

Popular author and founder of Age March, Barbara Rose Brooker is fearless in what she is willing to say out-loud. Or put to paper as she does in her novels, to name just a few  Should I Sleep in His Dead Wife’s Bed , The Rise and Fall of a Jewish American Princess , The Viagra Diaries ,...

When 450 love letters written by her father to her mother during WWII made their way from storage into her hands, Jenny did not, at first, know what to do. These were not, after all, letters written to her, and she was a little nervous about what would she might find. What she found was not only a...

  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...