Mark Mercer: Passionately Dispassionate
During the summer of 2019, nearly forty years after I last saw Mark Mercer, we…
Boundless Energy Battling Climate Change: Lisa DeMarco
As with her older siblings, when Lisa DeMarco was a little girl her parents…
Leo Lubrano: Mindfulness in a Time of Covid
When Sophia Loren entered the room Leo Lubrano was putting together the…
There's Something About Sally
Late September, 2017, and I’m sitting at a long dining table, across from…
Saul Isler: The Definition of Chutzpah
Last winter, as I’m preparing to participate in a Los Angeles Moth…
This is Brian Bland, live, from Santa Monica, California
Late at night, early April 1968, found 26 year old Brian Bland driving through…
Write Away Folks, Just Write Away
In January, 2018, on the first Tuesday after my wife Barb and I arrived in…
It's Sharpe To Stay Home: Final Reflections
As I edited and revised this wrap-up to the Profiles I’ve published about my…
It's Sharpe To Stay Home: Joan's Story
I’m on the phone talking a little bit about Joan Sharpe with her youngest…