Patricia: Well, really what most people want to know is, do we fight? Our collaborative work is truly a collaboration. Fred doesn’t have to send me a memo; he knows what is needed and gets the work done for the research and the gathering of material. And then I take it and do a rough draft, leaving gaping holes where I think information ought to be.
And then he comes back in and fills that in, and we read it and recycle and read it and recycle until we finally get it to where we’re both satisfied with it.
Frederick: Well I guess said simply, we talk a lot. And when we-re not talking, we, you know, just out observing the world as it is.
Patricia: When we’ve worked and we hit a rough spot, we’ll just go take a drive up in the country or… We live on the Mississippi River. And we drive along Highway 3, which is along the river and we don’t talk; we just observe and watch and rest the mind.
And you’d be surprised that on the way back from that trip, we’re talking non-stop about how to solve a problem that we’ve run into or whatever. But we work together at home, in our office. Fred has his desk and his work and I have mine. And we’re not attached at the hip, although we work very, very closely together.
