Ten years on Broadway in Miss Saigon, you cannot do that unless you are a major talent. That is exactly what Ray Santos is. Major talent. Actor, singer and dancer. He talks about his life and the journey from San Francisco to Broadway with what you would have to call a rickety start. He says when he heard himself...

David Friedman, composer, conductor and author you may already know has a new book out. Help Is On the Way, based on his song with the same title,  is about help that comes to us in unexpected ways. David has learned from personal experience that help is on the way whether you are aware of it or not.

Cynthia Toussaint is back to talk about music. The ability of music to heal, and her latest CD. You may remember Cynthia as a cheerful, grounded and beautiful woman who knew as a girl she was meant to be on stage. She was twenty-one years old when she was struck by a disease now recognized as Complex Regional Pain Syndrome...

The Yellow Brick Road. That is pretty much all you have to say to evoke an incomparable world of adventure, terror, friendship, victory and mystery. Most of us have traveled that road with Dorothy, have longed to own magic slippers, have wished for a fairy god-mother. Have most of us sung “ding-dong the witch is dead” at some time or...

David Brower was born into a significantly important and creative theatrical family; Broadway theater and Hollywood movies. Yet, he says he spent a good part of his Beverly Hills young life looking for love. Spoiler, yes, yes, he found it. But until he was able to grab that love, the road was fraught with bumps, and yes challenges that...

The effects of childhood abuse can continue into adulthood in ruinous ways. Cynthia Toussaint is here to talk about generational trauma, the damage that continues down the generations often causing increasing harm and life-threatening disease to adults who have suffered the horror of abuse and vicious dysfunction.

Cynthia who was at one point in her young life a ballet...

Have you ever been tempted to write a hate letter? Should you do it? So often I hear people, in a fit of pique say, “I’m gonna write a letter!” This is usually in response to some company who has foisted a faulty product on us or to a politician who has disappointed us. But, we harbor anger to...

If you have ever felt that writing a thank you note is a burden, then Gina Hamadey Bergman is the person you may want to meet. Gina spent a year writing thank you notes, one a day. By category month by month. Seems like a daunting task, but Gina is a talented and diligent writer with a feel for organization...

Young and seeking bargain items that would go nicely in her new apartment, Wendy Drake took her chances on an estate sale. When a blue-topped box caught her eye, she got better than objects for her new digs. She took a peek to find the first of her Thousand Letters adventure and bought the box containing letters written between...

Anson Williams was part of our lives for years. For those of us who were teens in the 50s, we knew he was a devoted friend who visited weekly as Potsie Webber, an exuberant member of the Happy Days crowd. For those of us who missed that era, he brings us to the party. How did he get this...