THE MARRIAGE OF SEED+SOIL
I have never been a fan of TV game shows. I know millions of people get into the precarious fortunes of the guests lucky enough to be selected as participants, but my interest in watching those shows ranks very low on my “to-do” list. In fact, when I was a boy and heard Bob Barker’s voice from some distant TV, I figured I had been inside the house too long.
One game show that I never understood was the “Newlywed Game.” It could have been my age at the time, but I never understood how people could be married and yet be incompatible to the point of not knowing trivial things, such as “what would your husband consider as the perfect vacation destination.” Later in life, I was to find out that those folks were not abnormal: Calling any detail “trivial” was a mistake, and my wife really didn’t know that an Alaskan moose hunt ranked near the top of my vacation destination list.
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