Here is a story that you would bet could not have happened in any universe, but it did. Meredith May’s newest work, I Who Did Not Die, is the true story of two soldiers on opposite sides of one of the bloodiest wars of the twentieth century. An Iranian child soldier, who understood the meaning of mercy,  refused the ordered...

Renee McKenna, when asked how she likes to be introduced, was momentarily bollixed and for good reason. She is not just busy, she is industrious, creatively productive at every turn and defined by constant personal growth. She is a spiritual teacher, teaches art to kindergarten and 5th grade, is a painter and a public artist (sometimes midnight stealth to...

Pamela Holm, author of the hit play Lovesick, the Cat Allergy Musical, did not start writing until she was almost 30 and saw Postcards From the Edge. It was what she calls a Carrie Fisher moment, the first time she had seen “a smart-ass woman being funny and not being a bitch.” Pamela knew she could do this....

If you had asked him at the age of 3 what he wanted to be when he grew up, he would have said an actor. He was transformed by an understandable confusion when his mom took him to see Mary Poppins. Somehow he picked up on the possibility that he could be anything. Ugly duckling in a school play when...

Sister Roma is a handsome, svelte, intelligent and educated man who, as a member of the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence, transforms, like Superman or Wonder Woman, dramatically into someone visibly valiant when on duty. His mission as a Sister is to feed the hungry, be caregiver to the sick, take a role as community leader and civil rights...

Caley Versfelt is in charge, in demand and incomparable. She grew up loved for who she is and aware of her outstanding, world-changing abilities. Out of curiosity I looked up the very overworked word “special” and found that the actual definition, “better, greater of otherwise different from what is the usual, and exceptionally good”, is Caley to a T....

Cissy Wellman fits very nicely into the category of “you don’t get credit for the beauty or talent you are born with, you get credit for what you do with it.” Her significant Hollywood family history begins with the stunning work of her father William Wellman, pioneer film director of the first Academy Award winning 1927 film...

Carole Ita White was 6 months old when her father Jesse White brought the family to LA to join James Stewart and others for a role in the movie Harvey. And, despite the Hollywood of wealth, recognition, privilege, and glamor she was born into, it was, for her, just a normal kid’s life of school, friends,...

Be there or be square. Sunday, March 19th at the Catalina Jazz Club in Los Angeles for a fabulous roster of performers – Roslyn Kind , Mary Wilson (you know her on her own and from her days as a vocalist with the Supremes), Chris Hendricks , Kathy Buckley, Geri Jewell and others including a surprise...

It was more than just a hello. It was a guarantee of a good time with a friend who sauntered through the door as regularly as a good heartbeat always at the wrong moment and always with good will. David says it was set up as a way to get Squiggy in the door and into the apartment where he...