Dec 24, 2024
Daniel Schwarzhoff discovered pretty late in life that he was not really a Schwarzhoff: that the man he had always considered his father was not his biological dad. It explained a lot. At least it gave a shape to the chaos that had marked his early life. He rose above that chaos with a career on Wall Street but...
Dec 10, 2024
Patti Clark grew up in Redwood City where she overcame a childhood marked by absentee parents to graduate high school and attend a good college. A sort of divine intervention shaped the trajectory of her life and then a tarot card reader helped her recognize her own addiction. She spent 13 years sober, determined to...
Nov 12, 2024
Frank Conniff has been a stand up and writer and producer for many tv shows like Sabrina the teenage witch but he’s probably best know for his role as TV’s Frank on the Peabody Award winning cult hit Mystery Science Theater 3000 where he also served as a writer.
I discovered Frank as one of the many members of my...
Nov 5, 2024
My original notes...
Jamie Niven is the son of international movie star and academy award winner for best actor, David Niven. But I really knew him from my parents crowd of waspy New Yorkers spending the summers out on Long Island where he was always the life of the party and where growing up I had rarely seen any of...
Oct 22, 2024
Reposting this as it again proves sadly timely in my community, and Clancy Martin's book is an invaluable resource for suicide prevention.
Clancy Martin is the author of the recently published, highly acclaimed memoire - HOW NOT TO KILL YOURSELF - which is also an enlightened and practical guide to suicide prevention....