In her words, "Live Wisely, Love Well is a personal exploration of the choices we make, good and bad, and the ability to change the course of our lives. Along the way we will debunk myths and connect the dots, hopefully, about some essential truths. All that from someone with zero credentials to do so."

In television, Ms. Curtis co-starred opposite Richard Lewis in the sitcom Anything But Love, as well as the title role in TNT’s adaptation of Wendy Wasserstein’s play, The Heidi Chronicles, and the CBS telefilm, Nicholas’ Gift.

Ms. Curtis is also an author of best-selling children’s books with net sales of all editions exceeding 5.1 million units.  In the fall of 2009 an interactive collection of four of her earlier titles was released entitled, BOOKS TO GROW BY ™, A Treasury and in the autumn of 2010, her ninth book, My Mommy Hung The Moon, A Love Story will be released.  In addition to BIG WORDS for Little People, which was released in September, 2008 and debuted as #1 on the New York Times Bestseller List, she is the author of Is There Really A Human Race?, It’s Hard To Be Five, Learning How To Work My Control Panel,  I’m Gonna Like Me, Letting Off A Little Self Esteem, Where Do Balloons Go? An Uplifting Mystery, Today I Feel Silly and Other Moods That Make My Day, Tell Me Again About The Night I Was Born, and When I Was Little, A Four-Year-Old’s Memoir of Her Youth. 

Ms. Curtis is also an AIDS activist and has a deep and active connection to many children’s charities, including Children’s Hospital Los Angeles and Childrens Hospital of Pittsburgh, as well as being the official spokesperson for CAAF (The Children Affected by Aids Foundation), on whose Executive Advisory Board she is a serving member, and The Starlight/Starbright Foundation.  Ms. Curtis is a recovering alcoholic/addict and was honored to have served on the Board of Directors of CASA (The National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University) and The Scott Hitt Foundation.

She is the mother of Annie, age 23 and Thomas, age 14 and has been married for 24 years to actor/director Christopher Guest.

Abraham Verghese, M.D., renowned physician, best–selling author, and Professor for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the Stanford University School of Medicine, has earned accolades in and out of the medical community for his advocacy on behalf of patients. He is widely regarded as having influenced the way modern medical students think about what it means to be a doctor and to treat people. Dr. Verghese has lectured widely on the importance of the doctor–patient relationship, on the samaritan function of physicians, and on where meaning resides in a medical life.

Much of Dr. Verghese's life's work is brought to bear on his debut novel Cutting for Stone, which has been celebrated by critics around the country. Dr. Verghese has also written two nonfiction books. My Own Country, a memoir about his time treating AIDS patients in rural Tennessee, was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award and was made into a movie. His second book, The Tennis Partner, about his close friendship with a drug-addicted physician, was a New York Times Notable Book and a national best seller.

Dr. Verghese was raised in Ethiopia, attended medical school in India, and came to the United States to practice. He soon became concerned about doctors losing touch with the roots of medicine and with their patients. "The patient in America is becoming invisible," observes Verghese. "It is as if the patient in the bed is merely an icon for the real patient, who exists in the computer." He has worked tirelessly to reverse the trend in his own practice and by speaking publicly. He has appeared on CBS's 60 Minutes and on National Public Radio, and his writing has appeared in The New Yorker, Sports Illustrated, The Atlantic, Esquire, Granta, The New York Times Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere.

Dr. Verghese is board certified in internal medicine, pulmonary diseases, and infectious diseases. He serves on the Board of Directors of the American Board of Internal Medicine.

Armed simply with her dusky vocals and acoustic guitar, Colbie Caillat and her homespun music continue to resonate with listeners and win new fans.  After the release of her nearly double platinum debut album “CoCo,” Caillat has quickly made such an enduring impact that USA Today declared the California girl a vital part of “a new wave of troubadours luring fans of all ages into a peaceful, easy feeling.”   As Caillat told USA Today, “[my] songs are optimistic and bright. I grew up in southern California and Hawaii. The lifestyle was laid back and I listened to mellow, positive music, like Bob Marley and Jack Johnson. So I think that’s all inside me. I’m happy, and that gets expressed in my music.”

At the core of Caillat’s appeal are her honesty and lack of pretense. And her intense desire to create a body of work that resonates from the first note to the last. “I hate having to change an album because you don’t like that song or you want to go to the next,” she says. “I want someone to just be able to put the album on and listen all the way through.”

She is one of the brightest new artists to emerge in the last few years and the first true myspace.com discovery.   With no marketing push and only the power of the music behind her, Caillat became a sensation on the social networking site starting in 2006 when, upon the advice of friends, she began uploading her songs to her page.  By then, her talent had been developing for years. Caillat started singing around the house as a small girl, but a pivotal moment came when she was 11 after she heard the Fugees’ Hill sing “Killing Me Softly.” “It made me want to start singing,” Caillat recalls, “so I sang one of her songs at a talent show in sixth grade.”

“CoCo” debuted at No. 5 on Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart and remained in the top 20 of the chart more than half a year after the CD’s release. “Bubbly” spent a staggering 14 weeks at No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Top 40 chart and four weeks atop the Adult Contemporary chart. “Bubbly” has also been certified platinum; signaling sales of more than 2.6 million downloads. Second single “Realize,” about a friend, who was secretly in love with Caillat, was also a huge hit. And the third is proving to be the charm as “Little Things” is following the path of its predecessors.

Since the album’s debut, Caillat has been a constant fixture on the road in the U.S., Europe, Australia and Asia. She’s alternated between headlining her own sold-out concerts and opening for such artists as John Mayer, one of her major influences.

In February Colbie won two Grammys at the 52nd annual Grammy Awards. She and Jason Mraz won in the “Best Pop Collaboration With Vocals” category for their work on Jason’s “Lucky” single.  Colbie also received a Grammy for being a featured artist on Taylor Swift's Fearless album which won the Grammy for Album of the Year.