Love Letters Live

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...

The LGTBQ community in good hands with Jill Baker as she focuses on gender, transgender and HIV wellness. A family nurse practitioner for 20+ years, Jill works as a primary care provider, which means she is authorized to prescribe medicines and take care of her own patients. Pressure on doctors to see so many...

Times change, and language changes to reflect it. Janna Barkin, author of He Has Always Been My Son, talks about the importance of using the pronouns that people choose to reflect their gender identity that may differ significantly from the gender they were assigned at birth. Janna tells us what it is...

  Alison Hitchcock wrote over 100 letters to a man she barely knew. They met at a yoga retreat and did not really connect until they were next to each other in a headstand and, oops, a simultaneous bodily function took over. Friendship sealed. Alison, not one to cook meals, wanted somehow to cheer up...

“It’s a girl!” came the proclamation at the birth of Janna Barkin’s second child. Her 5 year old daughter disagreed. Janna Barkin, author of He’s Always Been My Son, talks about raising her transgender son. Unconditional love for this beautiful child, of course, but more than that. We live in a constantly changing world where gender...

Steve Spitz knew early in his life that he differed from the other children in school. He learned differently, he processed in atypical ways, his mind wandered in class. That he grew up with a devoted family who loved him unconditionally was a blessing that softened the edges of challenges, yet it was only a short time...

Gordon Goodwin is a Grammy winner, composer, arranger, pianist, saxophonist, actor, founder and bandleader of Big Phat Band, popular radio personality, 4 time Hollywood Bowl performer, conductor for Johnny Mathis, worked with Quincy Jones, Steven Spielberg, Christiana Aguilera, John Williams, Ray Charles. You may be tempted to ask “where does it end?” Don’t bother...

Before the days of matchmaking sites and online dating, there were personal ads in newspapers. Rose Taibbi, to keep her mind occupied while waiting to go to the wake of a dear friend, picked up a local newspaper and looked at the personals. She crossed off everyone but  two and, baffled as she was at why she...

Receiving a heart that saved his life, Steven Taibbi lives every day in profound gratitude and wanted to include the donor’s family in his life. His donor David Jason Jocobo, a healthy 36 year old man, father of four, suffered a brain aneurysm and collapsed in front of the family, dying just three days later. The family...

Color one of the most important facets of our lives and sometimes our defining identification. The colors we wear, what does it say about us? What color gets our heart rate up and probably feels like love? Do parents still tell teen children what colors they may not wear? Lee Rosenberg, high-school art teacher is back with some...

Steven Taibbi was born with a hole in his heart and has earned a stunning distinction; one he never asked for. Operated on right after birth, by the age of six he became the first person to live through two open hearts for ASD repair. Throughout his life he was told repeatedly that he had maybe only a year...

Teaching art to high school students may be more than you think. If you add into the lesson plans some physics, chemistry, discovering new talents, patience, and triggered memories, well, you have just entered Lee Rosenberg’s art class. Long ago and far away I had heard that good teaching is something like 90% entertainment. I believe that. Lee’s...

Feeling blue, anxious, needing something to cheer you up? Heaven knows the world is pressing down on us all with glum news. Good news is the release of a movie that, admittedly, will not change the world, but it is sure to make you smile from way down deep. The Knights of Swing, about a teen swing-band of...