You two are so sweet together! I get it. My husband and I are opposites in many ways. I like dancing, he doesn't. I'm ambitious, he's not. But it works perfectly because he doesn't mind if I go dancing without him and he supports my goals. We both love movies and hiking. So we sit on the couch together looking in the same direction, and walk together on the same paths. The most important thing is that our values are compatible and we're both well informed, so we're always in the middle of a lifelong conversation that never gets dull.
Neil was right. Love is real; not just an instrument for constructing plays and fairytales. It is something that; as they say, (You can't put yer finger on). If we knew why we fit with someone else, that'd take half the fun out of it. For believers and non-believers alike: Don't forget to lift your heads, even if yer down. Sometimes all it takes is just to see a special face, like the kind you see in dreams but then you realize that those come true.
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HOW I GOT HERE
I'm a writer, writing things that haven't brought me fame, but continue to involve me, inspire me to find an audience.
I started out as a modern dancer, contemporary, but balletic. I didn't want to be a swan, or a barefoot dancer. I wanted to dance to the music that thrilled me as a child, and made me want to be a dancer.
I began writing in the truck my first husband, Mark Ryder and I bought, in order to carry our set, props, and costumes for a long one-night-stands tour -- eighty-eighty performances in eighty-eight cities.
We were performing "Romeo and Juliet" nightly, but our marriage was breaking up. Every day while our stage manager drove us two-hundred miles or so to the next booking, I'd type a detailed description of last night -- what we did well, what we argued about, and a travelogue about the town, and comments from the people at the nightly party.
Recovering from the trip and the divorce, I sent my "car book" to a friend who said -- "Em, it's great, but ..." And that became rewrites, and another book. Then, my marriage to actor John Cullum, and then a play that got produced, and another book, big hopes because a famous agent loved it. The title and concept changed five times -- now it's been published, finally, as "Somebody, Woman of the Century." You can buy it, or read about it and my other five novels on Emily Frankel.com
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You two are so sweet together! I get it. My husband and I are opposites in many ways. I like dancing, he doesn't. I'm ambitious, he's not. But it works perfectly because he doesn't mind if I go dancing without him and he supports my goals. We both love movies and hiking. So we sit on the couch together looking in the same direction, and walk together on the same paths. The most important thing is that our values are compatible and we're both well informed, so we're always in the middle of a lifelong conversation that never gets dull.
Great show...thanks so much
Neil was right. Love is real; not just an instrument for constructing plays and fairytales. It is something that; as they say, (You can't put yer finger on). If we knew why we fit with someone else, that'd take half the fun out of it. For believers and non-believers alike: Don't forget to lift your heads, even if yer down. Sometimes all it takes is just to see a special face, like the kind you see in dreams but then you realize that those come true.
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