
Nov 19, 2007 10:23 am US/Eastern
Meaning
by Liz Walker
(WBZ)
Today we are going to look at ways that people seek and find meaning in different life experiences. It is not a simple endeavor but one that engages us all.
John O'HurleyHe is best known on Television's long-running Seinfeld show as the eccentric and verbose recovering opium addict Jay Peterman.
John O'Hurley is also a dancer, a game show host and the author of a new book. We talked to him in our Sunday conversation.
Marcus' MakeoverMarcus, an 11 year old Brockton 6th grader, is very excited about getting his room decorated by our good friends at Home goods. a big supporter of the Jimmy Fund in its mission to help kids with cancer. This makeover means much more than just sprucing up a room. It symbolizes a new beginning for a sports-loving young boy who has been very very sick. Lisa Scherber joins us from the Jimmy Fund, the organization that supported Marcus and has supported the fight against cancer at the Dana Farber Cancer Institute since 1948.
HomeGoodsOver the past six years HomeGoods customers have donated close to a total of $1.5 million in the month before the annual August JIMMY FUND walk through its "donate a dollar pin up campaign." Also since 1995 the TJX companies Walk team as raised one point 4 million dollars... This year they were the number one fund raising walk team!
Marie SalvatiFor thirty years Marie Salvati struggled to make ends meet raising four children on her own while her husband Joe was in prison for a murder he did not commit. It meant a publicly humiliating and privately painful life, one that some women may have abandoned
.but she did not. She joins us live in studio.
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