Love Letters Live

A 12 year old runaway girl, homeless and facing indescribable danger and misery is now in her 3rd year of law school. And, she is not the only one to have gone through the Jeffrey Sitcov’s Doors of Change and come out, yes, changed. Too many children have had to flee home to save their lives; they have...

As Passover is around the corner, Rabbi Peretz Mochkin dives right into the complexities of shedding various kinds of slavery that keep us from being as much as we can be. He talks about leaving the mental constraints of slavery; can people leave limitations foisted upon them?  Then there is relating instead of interacting and what that means personally...

Hint: he is the biological son of the sitcom mother of Ron Howard. Yes, Happy Days, and good for you and good for him as happy days there were. Pleased to present Jim Meskimen, an exceptional man you probably know him from more places than I could count on the fingers of four hands. The truth is because Jim...

Has the internet damaged our ability to trust what we see before our very eyes. You think it is Tom Cruise chatting on a Youtube? Think again. Maybe it is. Maybe not. Peter Katcoff, president of the Marin Philosophical Society, talks about loss of trust caused by the internet. People in positions of authority are lying, and lying...

With a war going on right now that has the potential to threaten the entire world in myriad ways, I know that legions of us have sent donations to help the people of Ukraine now facing horror after horror. Not to minimize countless political atrocities against people taking place daily, it’s just that this one was a reminder to me...

How much damage has the internet caused humanity? Plenty in ways both personal and universal. Peter Katcoff, with a slew of degrees, teaching experience and as current president of the Marin Philosophical Society, has a solid feel for societal changes and what they mean for us. The news, of course, is not all bad even though it becomes clearer...

Judy Tenuta is kicking cancer’s stage 4 ass! You may know her as The Love Goddess, Aphrodite of the Accordion, Singer, Comedienne supreme, stage actress performing in the Vagina Monologues and Menopause The Musical.  She has appeared in specials on HBO and a stint on General Hospital and is the first female stand-up comic to win “Best Female Comedian”...

The incomparable Noah Griffin (not a figure of speech here) has just been elected to the Tiburon Town Council. Although newly elected, he is no newcomer to Bay Area political life. He comes to this position with quite a history of accomplishment; a Harvard law degree, years of work with and for well-known and respected politicians including SF mayors...

What is the purpose of school administrators? Good question. Larry Strauss, teacher and well-known fiction author talks about what it takes to be a first-rate teacher, how and why teachers can fail, and the value of going above and beyond the basics – yes sometimes you have to break the rules to let your students know that, in...

Donna Russo is the lead actress and dancer of Donna On the Go, a web-series about a young woman with two non-related disabilities that cause some challenges, some difficulties and, yes, some laughter. With a childhood diagnosis of two conditions that may have stopped most people from achieving goals that were dearly held dreams, Donna forged ahead on the...

Larry Strauss was born to an actress mother and composer father you likely know well from years of prime time television and music. He took the blessing of his creative gifts in other directions first as an author of several fiction novels that have drawn on his personal experience. Then talent in another direction took him to teaching, a...

Snowball, Terri Wong’s 5 year old cockatiel, is as uncommon a creature as you could ever meet. If he has not seen Terri up and around by a certain morning hour she can hear him walking down the hall to her bedroom to wake her. Snowball is as satisfied as ever a bird can be with his own image....

  Come meet beauty pageant queen dachshund Oops and her friend Dr. Feldman a combo long haired chihuahua and Pomeranian. I thought it would be fun to dedicate an episode of Love Letters Live to the wonder of man’s best friend. By the way these two dignified souls are good friends off the camera. Oops has found a stable and...

Nothing quite like twins for grabbing your heart. And, in the world of twins there is nothing like the D’Ambrosio twins actresses Bianca and Chiara who have been acting since toddlerhood. Twins, yes, but two distinct people and together or individually you will have to look far and wide to fine any young women nicer, more adorable, outgoing, intelligent,...

Pure joy. The Brothers Four. Bob Flick and four fraternity brothers (yes, hence “Brothers Four”) started this group in 1957. If you are lucky enough to have been aware of folk music in the 50s or 60s, you remember them, right? American Folk music in general is a fascinating and interesting genre having spanned decades longer than we...

Vince Di Paolo, American born of Italian ancestry, was a teen in an Italian boarding school and one day cut school to go to a movie. That was it. He knew, as he said, at the ripe old age of 16 he belonged to that world. It seems that sometimes a little misbehavior, and the independence it may reflect....

Reverend Steve Pieters, one of the most charming and influential religious leaders of today, has many distinctive achievements to his credit. Understatement. He has been living with AIDS for 40 years, which by itself puts him in a unique category. This miracle caught the eye of Tammy Faye Baker who reached out to him years ago to ask him...

Tyler Chabot is not a man to take a commitment lightly, yet, after a two-year relationship with, alas, the wrong match, proposing marriage, wedding plans in place, he found the courage to brave the anguish and end the engagement. How he met her is worth hearing and their love grew until a feeling overtook Tyler that this was not...

Anabelle Bugatti, psychotherapist, author of Using Relentless Empathy in the Therapeutic Relationship, and a believer in romance, specializes in couples and individual therapy. Anabelle, or Dr Belle, as she is affectionately known, is accessible as can be, with her heart and mind open to what is troubling those who need her. With her vast experience and many faceted focus...

Ten years on Broadway in Miss Saigon, you cannot do that unless you are a major talent. That is exactly what Ray Santos is. Major talent. Actor, singer and dancer. He talks about his life and the journey from San Francisco to Broadway with what you would have to call a rickety start. He says when he heard himself...