Skip Frye Speaks Interview with Chris Dixon

Chris Dixon. Being a born again Christian yourself, are you getting people in your church or religious community who are saying derogatory things?

Skip Frye: No, not really. But there is that side of it. I haven’t really been to church in about four weeks. I haven’t been able to get there because of one thing or another. We had a neighbor die right next door in the course of this election. It was kind of a surreal day, because the services were on election day — out on Point Loma. The reception afterwards was at the submarine base, which the last thing out before the tip of Point Loma. So we got out there to the end, and we didn’t have a sticker, and it was a military family — he was a Marine. So we got hung up at the top and had to sit there for a good half hour overlooking the panorama of San Diego on election day. I was really kind of digging on it. It was just kind of a time of peace and quiet, and plus, with a funeral, when you’re facing life and death, it always makes you focus on what’s real in life. It was a pristine day, crystal clear, and there was just the realization that my wife might be mayor of all that.

CD: So you were with Donna while you were sitting out there?

SF: Yeah, Donna, her mom and I. The guards were holding us up and her mom was ready to court-marshall ‘em because we were already late. To me, it was just kind of neat sitting there, and I mentioned it to Donna, ‘God, you might be mayor of all that.’  The Mayor To Be?   To me, God orchestrates everything. He sets it all up, and whoever’s going to win, I believe he’s going to put in there for a purpose, whether it’s my wife, or Dick Murphy again.

CD: It’s interesting you brought up a point about serving people.

SF: That’s where Donna is. She’s more there than I am in a lot of respects. Here I am reading it every day and going to church, but she’s out there living it.