The theme for this year's I Will Tell film festival is an exciting and scary one. Living Your Dreams takes us a notch above Dreaming the Dream and stretches us to be more specific about the dream for our lives rather than the make-believe fairy tale that is often shoved down our throats from a variety of otherwise well-meaning individuals and organisations. Living the dream means being prepared to sacrifice time, money, relationships, sometimes reputation and respectability. Living y...

In Tribute to an Artist Years ago in Chicago when Michael was performing with his brothers as The Jackson 5, his parents were buying custom jewelry designs from my mother who was an artist. These were pieces they would be wearing in their shows. All the boys seemed very into sports at that time. During the days they would be working out prior to performing at night. I remember hearing reports of fans, mostly girls, always in crowds waiting outside Michael's door. I was invited to one of his s...

In Tribute to an Artist Years ago in Chicago when Michael was performing  with his brothers as The Jackson 5, his parents were buying custom jewelry designs from my mother who was an artist. These were pieces they would be wearing in their shows.   All the boys seemed very into sports at that time. During the days they would be working out prior to performing at night.  I remember hearing reports of fans, mostly girls, always in crowds waiting outside Michael's door. I was invited t...