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November 1, 2007
The shoe still fits
After twenty years of living a fairy tale, complete with happy endings and evil witches, a house made of bricks and a house made of sticks, a prince in a white Rabbit (Volkswagen that is), and several fairy godmothers, I’m here to tell you that the shoe still fits.
When I was a little girl, I loved to play house. I dreamed of my knight in shining armor and I cradled my dolls lovingly. I treated my baby sister like a living doll and enjoyed the fact that people thought she was my child when we were in public. (A little weird it’s true. Consider however that this was in Texas where a young mother was/is not all that uncommon.)
During my teen years, my favorite pastime was flipping the pages of Brides Magazine and pretending I was the young, beautiful woman pictured in her flowing wedding dress.
Then the Seventies came along. I too was swept up in the I Am Woman movement. My dream of becoming wife and mother pushed to the back burner, I instead pursued a corporate career that lead me from Dallas to New York City to Los Angeles and finally Seattle. Guess you could say I was “looking for love in all the wrong places.” I definitely kissed more than my fair share of toads and frogs. (A toad is a frog with attitude.)
Then I met Scott Coplan and the rest is a fairy tale complete with happy endings and evil witches, a house made of bricks and house made of sticks….
To my husband of 20 years: Once and for all, I want to set the record straight. I did not marry you for your money or your body. I married you for your sense of humor (and the way you look in a suit and tie).
It seems like yesterday. It seems like always. It seems like forever!
ILYMADLY,
E
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Comments
and you married him for his laugh...I can still hear it after all these years, my love to you both, Cate :-)
Posted by: Cate Hall | November 1, 2007 9:10 AM
I though the article was great, keep up the good work, your uncle would be proud of you.
Aunt DJB
Posted by: Anonymous | November 1, 2007 4:07 PM
Very cool, E. You know, Kathryn Hepburn always said that what she loved about Spencer Tracy was that he always made her laugh....You can't get better than that!
Posted by: Christina Ward | November 2, 2007 4:26 AM
Well that is just the nicest thing I've read in a long time! I think you are BOTH very lucky! Great writing E! I hope we all - out here in this vast yet shrunken world - can have such love in our lives, and have that love recognized and celebrated in such an elegant manner!
Cheers... Larry
Posted by: Larry D | November 3, 2007 5:34 AM
You are so lucky to have a wonderful life. Best wishes. -- Leta
Posted by: Leta Parkes | November 6, 2007 9:37 AM
Bubbles wants me, Aldo, her personal secretary, masseur, chef and trainer,
to let you know how surprised and delighted she is to hear that someone on
Bainbridge Island still likes her own husband.
No matter how unabashedly romantic, not to say hubristic, it may be of the
author to laud her own better half, it is still a refreshment to a country
music star who spends much of her time bemoaning the condition of
relationships between the sexes. Bubbles just hopes that some bombeshell
doesn't find the time right to write in from the old Army Base and divulge
her current ten-year affair and four love children with said paragon.
That's what would happen to Bubbles. Best wishes, Aldo
Posted by: Bubbles | November 6, 2007 9:43 AM
What a great tribute. We all should be so lucky! I'm always affirmed when I hear stories of it happening.
Posted by: Cricket | November 20, 2007 2:21 PM
