Marin County writer Naomi Rayman is blessed with resilience, wit and an enviable ability to shift from one reality into another. When she was thirteen years old, she suffered the loss of her mother, leaving her not only without the continued unconditional maternal love and guidance a teen aged girl needs but without a link to her own history,...

Talent, genetic good luck, commitment, diligence and knowing when to say “yes” was the right mix for Emilio Palame’s success. When he was 7 years old, as the other kids were outside playing army, he was playing a piano he found in his neighbor’s garage. Yes, he found the piano, but more to the point, the piano found him...

Need a little help remembering the road from the 60s to ISIS? San Francisco psychotherapist Hank Berman looks back what he saw on his self described “Hegira on the Hippie Trail”. His was North Africa, Turkey and across Iran and into Afghanistan, Pakistan and India, and the political blowback of what he saw was in the cards. Were people paying attention...

James Helsing, was, for years, a researcher behind the scenes for Entertainment Tonight and the Emmys. Until he got laid off. James is blessed with an even temper and decided being let go was a sign from the movie gods to close that chapter and focus on his real destiny as a film-maker. He is grateful that he found very few bumps in the road...

Good news. Dr. Marylou Naccarato, who says that if you think size matters you should go see her, is back with more on what may be the world’s most compelling topic. Yes, sex. Marylou gets happily right to the point with a rare combination of serious, playful, wholesome and mischievous. Her last Love Letters Live episode was not only...

Santina Muha is an actress so filled with joy and energy that even a recent extended tiptoe past death in the hospital left her already love-filled heart about to burst with more. Always interested in television, she felt pushed by the universe to jump into the world of entertainment, and so she did. She grew up on Seinfeld, SNL, Full...

DM Smith, gifted fashion designer and so much more, was born on an Idaho farm into a homestead family, learned to drive a tractor at the age of six when she was put to work in the potato fields and learned to cook and sew through her 4H group in preparation for being a good wife and mother. Not...

Benjamin Franklin’s advice was to ask a busy person if you want something done. This holds as true today as it did then, and Janice Kamenir Reznik seems to be not simply the candidate for the California State Senate district 27, but busy enough to get the job done well. Running for office was not her idea, she was recruited...

Hairstylist Dustin Berlin took to the streets to cut hair for the homeless and found himself in a world of endless potential. When he sensed the isolation of a homeless man sitting in the park, he joined him and began a conversation about life. Next step? Dustin cut this man’s hair, brushed it and showed him a mirror. This...

Shawn Ryan, exceptional cabaret singer, actor, writer, producer, director, and camp founder/director took his first step onto a path of theatrical success as a six-year-old singer in a stage production of Oliver. The short version of his reaching goals is, in his words, “Work very hard.” He stayed right on that path and followed every detour he found, each one leading...