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April 27, 2013

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Tresa Eyres and her friendship with Reverend Lloyd Eucker

Reverend Lloyd Eucker was, by all accounts, an astounding man who knew, among other things, how to wait his turn for the friendship of a child too shy to say hello. Love Letters Live Co-founder Tresa Eyres was that little girl who averted her gaze at every offer of a handshake. Reverend Eucker was not [...]

 

April 19, 2013

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James Sokol bringing Broadway to Marin County

James Sokol, of the Marin JCC and founder of Exploring Opera with James Sokol and, hence, leader of fabulous trips to hear opera and Broadway musicals, had very clever parents. His bedtime stories were the plots of classical operas, perfect short stories with endless adventure and visual excitement. So, it is no surprise that he [...]

 

April 5, 2013

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Dan Field’s timeless love letter to Roger Ebert

Some time ago Dan Field, a wonderful, emotionally generous man of many talents (and, yes, a dear friend I’ve known since he was a teen age friend of both my daughters) wrote a love letter to Roger Ebert. Dan had heard Roger was ill and wanted to let him know his personal history with this [...]

 

February 21, 2013

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Author Ed Cozza on writing and life

Ed Cozza, author of a new novel Nowhere Yet is a man who apparently has always approached life with joy, open-heartedness and gratitude. Yes, even as a child in Colorado. Every day was a new joy spent outside in play among beauty. Did he know he had the sort of imagination that would lead him [...]

 

February 19, 2013

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Andrew Lam back with another wonderful book

Andrew Lam, my personal favorite Vietnamese writer, is back with another wonderful book. This one, Birds of Paradise Lost, is fiction, although it is so heart-reaching and detailed in it is in its portrayal of Vietnamese people who have had to make new lives in America that I originally thought it was a collection of [...]

 

January 31, 2013

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Annie Albagli’s love letters to Washington DC

Annie Albagli, as an artist, has done what we come to expect from a significant artist; she engineers the unexpected. You can see delightful surprises everywhere she has set her hand, mind and heart to work. Her inspirations are as original as her interpretations. And, she is not satisfied to remain enmeshed in only one [...]

 

January 17, 2013

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Heidi Kühn’s huge success in removing land mines

Heidi Kühn is the founder and CEO of Roots of Peace, an organization dedicated to the removal of land mines throughout the world.  She flies fearlessly through war ravaged countries, tiptoes past danger on a moment’s notice, and meets with heads of state whose support she overwhelmingly has.  The danger is overwhelming and the task [...]

 

January 6, 2013

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Remembering the best of years gone by

Deciding to write a love letter has always been, to me, the first step on the road to bathing in the positive, and I am happy to say that this is newly brought to my attention every time I see it in action. Jonathan Brower , psychotherapist and host of his own internet radio show called [...]

 

December 27, 2012

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Ann Mahony with more on what we can see in handwriting

Ann Mahony is back to talk once again about one of my favorite subjects, and maybe yours, too, handwriting. Listen to Ann talk about more of what she does in her life as a handwriting analyst. Is it possible to disguise your intentions by disguising your handwriting? Why might it be a good idea to have [...]

 

December 5, 2012

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More from Jerry Gillies

Jerry Gillies, best selling author, comedy writer, performing comedian and ex-con is back to talk about comedy, his last performance at the Berkeley Marsh, what makes people funny and what successful people have in common. He is, as you may remember, about to become an expat, but with the internet as it is you don’t [...]