RIDING THE EDGE: A LOVE SONG TO DEBORAH-- A LOVE SONG FOR US ALL

Summary: Dr. Michael Tobin, PhD has been a marital and family psychologist for 45 years and an author and playwright since he was twelve. He’s been with his life partner, soulmate, and wife, Deborah, for 47 years. In this 2-part interview, he discusses his most recent book, Riding the Edge, A Love Song to Deborah. In a race against the ravages of Deborah’s Alzheimer’s, Michael Tobin wrote this gorgeous love song to his wife to celebrate the extraordinary days of their early courtship and chronicles a six-month transformative journey in 1980 when Deborah, an Arab American, and Michael, an American Jew, bicycled across Europe, Lebanon, and Israel where they confronted the challenges of love, war, and identity.