Ok.. I guess it hasn't been "ALL a HOLIDAY"..can't keep a work a holic down..smile. I thought I would at least tell you about some of the folks who will be interviewed in the Fall.

Barbara Stahura.

What happens when a husband kills himself? What questions lay unanswered for his wife, his family? How does a family survive?

Tonight I will discuss this and more with Madeleine as her novel explores this mystery. Partita is her Madeleine's autobiographical story (and  while she fictionalized the novel, to protect a few characters)  Partita, explores and pieces together the life that Madeleine shared with her husband, Fred Herrmann, a German linguist, professor and violinist who committed suicide in 1969.

Fred and Madeleine had both survived WW2,she in France, he in Germany, only to meet and fall in love in Iowa. The couple married and moved to California, where they eventually  built two houses and were raising four children, who ranged in age from 11 to 14 when their father died.

Fred was a brilliant linguist, psycologist and violinist and like Ernst, his charater in the book, he died at the height of his career. The book's name Partita,  correlates to Bach's complex violin solo that Ernst Feilder, the character in book is fixated on playing.  The 5 parts of the Partita, correlate to the chapters in Ms. Herrmann's book.

Herrmann now 80, says she has been trying to understand her 39-year-old husband’s action and her memoir, begun more than 20 years ago, became a novel in the past few years so she could explore the clues and draw conclusions that she could only prove in her heart, she says.

Dr. Hainline is the Chief of Neurology and Integrative Pain Medicine at ProHEALTH Care Associates in Lake Success, NY, and Clinical Associate Professor of Neurology at New York University School of Medicine. At ProHEALTH, he has developed a comprehensive, multi-disciplinary Pain Center that embraces a rigorous scientific approach with compassionate wholistic medicine and his daily medical practice was the springboard for his book: Back Pain Understood:  A Cutting-Edge Approach to Healing Your Back.

His Division of Neurology and Integrative Pain Medicine has become a model for comprehensive and compassionate medical care, with a special blend of scientific methodology and mind-body wholistic medicine, all within an evidence-based framework and his team consists of  4 neurologists; 2 pain medicine interventionalists; 1 massage therapist and group therapy facilitator; 2 physical therapists; 2 nurse practitioners; 1 psychiatrist; 1 psychologist; and numerous support services.

Tonight, Frankie's guest is Frank Romano, author, lawyer, professor and interfaith peace activist. Frank Romano is a Maître de conférences (assistant tenured professor) at the University of Paris X in the Anglo-American Literature and Civilization Department and a member of the California and Marseille Bars. At present, he teaches law, literature, history and philosophy at the University of Paris and practices law in France and in the United States. 

 Frank's book, Storm over Morocco, is the story of his true life adventure of being an American studying in Paris, in search of the meaning and purpose of Life. While studying Philosophy at the Sorbonne, young Frank decides to leave the esoteric world of the University in search of real life adventures.

After befriending some Moroccon nationals at the restaurant where he worked in Paris, Frank was soon convinced he would find answers in Morocco. Frank soon finds himself  held prisoner by an extremist  Muslim sect in Morocco . Somehow able to resist the brainwashing from this Jihadist group, Frank narrowly escapes with his life . Today, Frank organizes and participates in interfaith peace events involving Jews, Moslems and Christians in Israel and Palestine.

This evening Frankie and Frank invite you to join them in a conversation discussing the role that religion plays in in world conflict, and how it can sometimes prevent and help lead us to world peace. We invite you to engage in dialogue for solutions for peace in the Middle East as well.

Have you ever wanted to be a 'Minister's wife" or wondered what it might be life? Well author and wife to a Senior Minister  Lisa McKay has written a survival guide for how to be "Married to the Ministry", and it's called 'You Can Still Wear Cute Shoes".

When Lisa's husband Luke told her he felt God was calling him into the Gospel Ministry, she was as supportive as a wife could be. She didn't understand at the time that Luke's 'gig' also included her as the supporting band member. It wasn't until a well meaning gentlemen offered her some advice that she even considered what it might mean for her. He said " The best thing you can do for Luke is learn how to play the piano. He’ll have a much easier time being called as a pastor of a church. Congregations love it when the pastor’s wife can contribute. It’s like they are getting two for one!”

When you think of a Pastor's wife, two kinds of women come to mind. Either one that seems "holier than thou' that she doesn't seem real or one who is committing a crime of 'fashion' , sentenced to living out a boring life without fun, fashion or friends- find out what life is really like "Married to the Ministry" from Lisa McKay.

Lisa is married to a Senior Pastor, is the mother of 4 children and understands well how difficult it can be to be the wife of a Minister.

Says Lisa, " Pastors wives often walk a lonely road, littered with impossible expectations and iconceivable identity crises. They are the object of hallway conversations and sermon illustrations, but rarely do they have the opportunity to be freely transparent or unique!
"YOu CAN STILL WEAR CUTE SHOES is a 'must have' survival guide for every woman who wants to do the  Ministry wife 'thang' well.