Nana Biography

We had a lovely life together. Everything was fun. So, you know, we didn’t have to go out and work for our living or do anything like that, we could go to parties and go skiing and play golf and have fun and in someways, I feel a little bit guilty when I look back on that kind of a life. And maybe that’s why after I was married for a while I began to get interested in some sort of volunteer work, which I did.

And looking back, Nancy, some people talk about a turning point in their lives, or turning points in their lives. Would you say anything stands out? 

Well, certainly when I married, John was a turning point. That was one of the highlights of the world. And I would say that almost every day is another one. It’s just really been, I would say now, even, it’s better than last year and last year was better than the year before. Just really, I, I would, it was just a lucky, lucky, wonderful thing that happened. And I don’t think it happens to a lot of people, but we hit it. And, when I, I have this business, which at first we sort of toyed with and thought it was a play thing, just suddenly became a very nice business and a lot of fun, and we share it, it’s wonderful. And we have a lot of fun with it, and I feel that it’s opened up all sorts of vistas for me.

Do you think it’s done some, since very few people share a career the way you do? 

That’s right.

Would you say that it’s done something for the marriage anyway?

A lot.

How so?

Well, because I was, I’m sure at the time we started this, there were two or three years there where we didn’t talk about it a lot but we thought about the fact that, the children were gone, and Mylife was playing golf four days a week and playing bridge, and I was restless about it, and we thought about it, and I really think Jon push me into it. The first thing he pushed me into was going to Stanford and that was wonderful.

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