Synopsis
Changing the world for the better, one letter at a time.
Episodes
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Jesus and other lovers is her story of a life lived as a nun
24/11/2024Jesus and Other Lovers? Irresistible. I cannot think why Netflix or someone is not all over this with a series in the works. Judy Theo Lehner tells her story here about Jesus and Other Lovers; An Intimate Memoir of a Catholic Nun – her story and the name of her book. Oh,...
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Jake saw Love on the Spectrum and wants to tell what he wants with romance
04/11/2024After watching Love On the Spectrum, Jake thought he would like a chance to say what he wanted to find in a romantic partner. Jake is an exceptional fellow with definite ideas of what it takes to make a relationship good. And, he knows what he wants. He knows he is creative; he likes...
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Prima Ballerina Janet Sassoon is more than the dancer
31/10/2024Prima Ballerina Janet Sassoon is so much more than that. She is a rare combination of stunning exotic family history, unstoppable passion and diligence, and a first rate cook with a collection of time-honored traditional middle-eastern recipes. Add to that her significant talent at the piano. Her Baghdadi Jewish community is the...
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When perfectly eligible are voters being denied the right to vote VoteRiders to the rescue
18/10/2024America is facing an emergency. With a momentous election around the corner, a tsunami of new laws across the country make it difficult if not impossible for some people to vote. Perfectly eligible voters being denied the right to vote, blocked from their duty to vote for lack of a governmental issued photo...
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Letting go of useless habits as we age
23/09/2024Shulamit Sofia MSW is getting older. Well, we all are, and at exactly the same rate. But she has a head start on some of you and has learned a thing or two to pass on about how to live life best for the rest of the road. Shulamit gives us a blessedly cheerful picture...
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Bringing grandparents comfortably into the world of transgender grandchildren
06/09/2024Janna Barkin had the good luck to knew she had a transgender child because that child made it so clear to her from the time he was little. She knew he was always her son despite what presented at his birth. But transgender can be confusion-filled and family members left sometimes fearful from lack of understanding....
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How this very smart mother handled an autism diagnosis
29/08/2024When Irena Smith’s son was diagnosed with autism she got right to work calling on the same innate wizardry she detailed in her recent book The Golden Ticket showing college applicants how to find and express their best selves. It is easy to expect our children to be, as Irena says, some variation of...
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What universities want in a college essay may not be what you think
09/07/2024What does it take to get children into top universities without damaging families, without scandal, jail-time, debilitating tension and humiliation? What roles should parents play? What makes the best college essays? All good questions. And here to talk about those issues is Irena Smith, a long time college admissions counselor and author of The...
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Will 47 days with Jesus have the power to repair an emotionally crumbling family?
05/03/2024Emilio 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...
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She no longer cares if you don’t like what she says
08/01/2024Author 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...
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Donnie Demers musician and lyricist from poster child to multi-platinum records
26/11/2023Donnie 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...
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Marc Saltarelli’s film on Studio One, the history of America’s first gay disco.
05/10/2023America’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...
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Nancy Botkin finds mysterious spots and family secrets
21/09/2023Walking 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...
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Stephen Jarchow on Artificial Intelligence as friend or foe
03/09/2023It 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...
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Double miracle-mysteriously recovered from AIDS and found his birth father after years of futile searching
31/07/2023Actor 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...
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Reverend Pieters beats odds survives AIDS and w Tammy Faye Bakker replaces ingorance with compassion
12/06/2023Reverend 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...
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Nothing like the Valley of the Moon Music Festival or the president of the Board Kimberly Blattner
04/06/2023The 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...
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Her love of laundry led to a successful second side career
18/05/2023Love 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...
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First date most important thing to notice
06/05/2023Samantha 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...
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A granddaughter’s memories of the real Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
26/04/2023Remember 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...