Love Letters Live

David Friedman, composer, conductor and author you may already know has a new book out. Help Is On the Way, based on his song with the same title,  is about help that comes to us in unexpected ways. David has learned from personal experience that help is on the way whether you are aware of it or not....

Cynthia Toussaint is back to talk about music. The ability of music to heal, and her latest CD. You may remember Cynthia as a cheerful, grounded and beautiful woman who knew as a girl she was meant to be on stage. She was twenty-one years old when she was struck by a disease now recognized as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome...

The Yellow Brick Road. That is pretty much all you have to say to evoke an incomparable world of adventure, terror, friendship, victory and mystery. Most of us have traveled that road with Dorothy, have longed to own magic slippers, have wished for a fairy god-mother. Have most of us sung “ding-dong the witch is dead” at some time or...

David Brower was born into a significantly important and creative theatrical family; Broadway theater and Hollywood movies. Yet, he says he spent a good part of his Beverly Hills young life looking for love. Spoiler, yes, yes, he found it. But until he was able to grab that love, the road was fraught with bumps, and yes challenges that...

  The effects of childhood abuse can continue into adulthood in ruinous ways. Cynthia Toussaint is here to talk about generational trauma, the damage that continues down the generations often causing increasing harm and life-threatening disease to adults who have suffered the horror of abuse and vicious dysfunction. Cynthia who was at one point in her young life a ballet...

Have you ever been tempted to write a hate letter? Should you do it? So often I hear people, in a fit of pique say, “I’m gonna write a letter!” This is usually in response to some company who has foisted a faulty product on us or to a politician who has disappointed us. But, we harbor anger to...

If you have ever felt that writing a thank you note is a burden, then Gina Hamadey Bergman is the person you may want to meet. Gina spent a year writing thank you notes, one a day. By category month by month. Seems like a daunting task, but Gina is a talented and diligent writer with a feel for organization...

Young and seeking bargain items that would go nicely in her new apartment, Wendy Drake took her chances on an estate sale. When a blue-topped box caught her eye, she got better than objects for her new digs. She took a peek to find the first of her Thousand Letters adventure and bought the box containing letters written between...

Anson Williams was part of our lives for years. For those of us who were teens in the 50s, we knew he was a devoted friend who visited weekly as Potsie Webber, an exuberant member of the Happy Days crowd. For those of us who missed that era, he brings us to the party. How did he get this...

MARTHA BOLTON is exceptional by any standards. With the mind of a comedienne and the soul of a historian, she brings us a book of delightful historical importance; Dear Bob…Bob Hope’s Wartime Correspondence with the G.Is of World War II Martha was the first woman staff writer for Bob Hope, helping to write his television specials, personal appearances,...

It must be a sign of great acting that we, the audience, so often attribute the qualities of the role to the actor personally. Yes, Bernardo of West Side Story is such a specific personality that you have to wonder how identical to George Chakiris this personality is. Well, the spoiler answer is not identical. But there is an...

We are so often dependent on the mainstream news for information about life in other countries. But there is always more. Kian Beyzavi, born and raised in Iran, sheds a bright light on what it was like to grow up there. The details of growing up as a very smart young girl in Tehran may surprise you as it...

For Allen Klein, seeing actual people on a stage was a life changing moment. Two productions and this 7 year old knew what he was meant to do.  When he asked his elementary school teacher if she would accept a diorama in place of a book report, she said yes and Allen was on the road. Seven. A set...

A love letter to the thief who stole his beautiful brand new titanium bicycle? Yes, and a brilliant one. Mickey Smith, dedicated to the sport he loved best, cycled for fun, for transportation, for giving to his community through Aids/LifeCycle. And just like that, in a flash of a cruel theft, so much of what his life was...

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...