Can an artist’s imagination alter reality during the magic of the holiday season? Can something in the heart manifest in the real world? Artist Miranda Jones might have agreed that dreams sometimes come true. But she’d never presume to believe something could leap from her canvas into the life of someone she hardly knows. Until now, that is. Over-scheduled during the busy holiday season, she none the less can’t help bu follow the imperative to paint an unlikely image on one of her small gi...

Are sea otters as cute and clever as they seem? Miranda Jones is as captivated by their sweet faces as she is spellbound by their antics. She can hardly wait to interact with them on her kayaking expedition off California’s Central Coast. Yet nothing could be more surprising than the controversy they’ve caused in the sun-drenched Santa Barbara waters, nor more disturbing than the vehement hatred they seem to inspire among local fishermen. Are the otters really as adorable as they seem? Or ...

Can a secret be kept for most of a young man’s lifetime? Joan Calvin must have thought so before she died years ago. Yet it was a secret she didn’t want kept from her son forever—just until he was ready to hear the truth. This Christmas, the time has come. It wasn’t that she placed it on a future calendar for her husband Joseph to find. Instead, she entrusted the timing of the disclosure to fate, and to the trustworthy butler whom she knew would never desert young Zackery. So now, all thes...

The first in a series of award-winning programs to be offered on the Building of America.Performed by a professional cast of seasoned actors, and carefully written and researched by a historian and playwright, this fascinating series of personal manifestos marches the listener through events and decisions that amassed as collective forces that gathered over the Colonies like storm clouds, heavy with menace, sparking heated debate, and deluging the citizenry with such intolerable ...

The First of the Founding Documents Trilogy featuring the Declaration of IndependenceThe listener is swept into a chapter of history ripped from the headlines of the late 1700s. The future of the Colonies hung in the balance. Would the founding fathers and mothers be executed for high treason, or would they sign the document that would mean ... Independence Now!A living document, the Declaration of Independence contains ideals and principles of g...

The Second of the Founding Documents Trilogy Featuring the U.S. ConstitutionSummer 1787. After a long, difficult, and devastating War for Independence was won, the Articles of Confederation -- our first form of government -- was falling apart at the seams. Controversy and dissension reigned supreme as Congress convened at Independence Hall. Fiery passions, ablaze with visions of a new form of government "by and for the people" hovered on the horizon. Would the sun of a New Age si...

The Third of the Founding Documents TrilogyResearched and written by a historian-playwright and performed by a professional cast of actors, this play carries the listener into the heart of agonizing debate.An independent nation now exists, forged in the fires of battle and founded upon lofty principles. But treaties with indigenous people have been broken, women had no rights, and slavery was still legal. Can integrity be legislated? Can equality be lived? Can truth be he...