Category: Love, Marriage, and Children
Things As They Are: Billy’s Lesson on Acceptance
“Remember that you can’t control everything in life. At some point you have to accept things as they are.” Billy Foster to Paul Larson, October, 2011 Dear Fellow Travelers: I’m a fan...
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Taking Care of the Community
Rabbis and school counselors are among the folks on the front lines helping individuals, families and indeed communities in times of crisis. Joyce and Mike speak with Bonnie, a school counselor from Newtown, Connecticut, and Rabbi Bill Hamilton who helped at Logan Airport on 9/11.
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Under The Radar: Distress Screening
Prologue: I seldom dwell on the fact that I am a cancer survivor. Now in my 16th year of survivorship I feel that I have grown comfortable with the fact that this type of cancer is essentially incurable, that it still has the...
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Widow: Moving on to the Next Chapter in Your Life
Joyce talks with June Wilcox, her mother, and Judy Powell, a social worker, about making the transition from marriage and caregiving to living on your own. People who have been a caregiver for many years go through a jarring transition when their spouse dies — they essentially lose their job, and sometimes with it their compass, their direction in life. June talks about making this transition at 92 after 68 years of marriage, and coming through it in a healthy way.
Eat, Drink, and be Married
Joyce talks with her book, Eat Drink and be Married, which examines the relationships among the friends gathered for the wedding. Supported by a variety of eclectic characters determined to wreck havoc on their carefully organized lives, each woman is forced to come to terms with her past before she walks down the aisle. Zoë must learn how to reveal a vulnerability beneath her bravado before she can finally open her heart.
Joyce talks with Greg Winick about his new book, “I Told My Mind To Shut The [bleep] Up! … and then I saw what was possible.” The book chronicles his own journey from panic to clear thinking and survival. 
