Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: THURSDAY, May 27, 1993 TAG: 9305270013
SECTION: EXTRA PAGE: 7 EDITION: METRO
SOURCE: From Wire Reports
DATELINE: LENGTH: Short
The ex-New York Jets player told the 2,000 grads: "My experience has taught me about the fragility of the human body and the resilience of the human spirit. Never doubt your capacity, with faith and hard work and the faith and hard work of others, to achieve miracles."
Two Washington writers who are married to each other and whose novels have a publication date of June 2 headed out on a his-and-hers book tour Wednesday.
"It's an interesting exercise in marital relations that we've set ourselves up for," Kate Lehrer said recently. Her second novel, "When They Took Away the Man in the Moon" is being published by Harmony Books.
She and her husband, Jim Lehrer, co-host of "The MacNeil/Lehrer Newshour," whose spy novel "Blue Hearts" is being published by Random House, will do interviews together, as well as joint readings and book signings, in cities around the country.
"If our marriage can survive this, it can survive anything," Jim Lehrer said. He noted that the couple will celebrate their 33rd wedding anniversary on the road in Grand Rapids, Mich., on June 4.
"Around 40, you got the pasta, you got the cheese, you got the sauce. Now you can start building the lasagna." - spiritual guru and author Marianne Williamson, on cooking up a successful middle age, in W magazine.
by CNB