Love Letters Live

Betsy Chasse is comfortable seeing the world through several lenses at once and acting on what she sees, feels and thinks, while sharing it all with an enthusiastic generosity. Having wrestled with the pain of her own divorce and learning to topple her own once-held beliefs, her book Tipping Sacred Cows is just that, a goodbye to the rules...

Actor and producer Marc Bovee, who grew up steeped in a difficult emotional milieu, knew as a high school senior exactly what he wanted to be when he grew up, general manager of a Loew’s theater. Self directed as he is, the day after his high school graduation he moved to NYC. He says, “No college, no Dartmouth, no Yale.”...

Lee Gant, as you may remember, walked into the world of knitting via her own dismal days of drugs and alcohol and found she had entered a territory where with every stitch came increased strength, health, joy and finally the power to bring that to others. She is back to talk to us about some of the people who...

Miryum Mochkin, San Francisco native, community leader, wife, mother, and teacher is back to talk about Jewish life as she lives it. You may remember Miryum from her Love Letters Live in which she thanked the matchmaker who found the exactly perfect husband for her or her Love Letters Live about her rather unusual grandmother. This present discussion is about...

A slatcher. That, in a word, is what Tobias Forrest says he is. “Actor slash singer slash writer slash comedian slash whatever will not pay you. If you can’t get an acting job hopefully you can do something else.” Tobias has always done a lot else beautifully and done it fearlessly. He says he never had a semblance of what...

Being an angel is not for the faint-hearted. It calls for diligence, fearlessness where others fear to tread, physical stamina, and a deep-seated sweetness. Add candor and a sense of humor and you get actress, dancer, choreographer and singer Auti Angel who fits the bill to a T. From her childhood of singing and telling stories into a tape recorder...

Michael Hansel is an exceptional and admired photographer, photography being one of his many talents and his present profession. But as talent needs to find expression, Michael has found it in other areas as well. Michael is a serious and well educated classical and jazz musician in. He was a drummer with a band and with an orchestra. He...

Meredith May, journalist, teacher, SF beekeeper and granddaughter of E. Franklin Peace the bee-keeper of Big Sur, is back to talk some more about bees and just in time, too, since there is good news about the much discussed, troublesome and mysterious hive abandonment, more currently known as colony collapse disorder. Meredith is one of those people who can talk...

Toby Klayman is a one-of-a-kind person, artist, mother, daughter, wife teacher and friend. You may remember her first Love Letters Live about refusing what her parents had planned for her and having come to California as a young woman with a secret kept unspoken for 27 years except for the love letter in the court file. You may...

Izzy Pivnick describes himself as an introvert. This is a little bewildering, really, since every step he ever took seems to be to reach out eagerly to others. He smiles and adds, “an introvert who loves people.” It is this enthusiasm for people that has leads him to success in whatever he chooses to do. Izzy has managed, when faced with...