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My assignment for Week One of Writing 201–a WordPress seminar–was to interview someone. I agonized. I dithered. To whom should I talk? There were so many possibilities, so many fascinating people, so many stories I would really love to hear and to share…
I was completely at sea.
Then I had a fun task at work: I met with filmographer faculty member Dan Parsons to tape a brief segment for Susan Holdren’s retirement video. It’s impossible to work with Dan without having great conversation, without talking about things that are deeply felt and truly meant. We got on the subject of illness and labels, and soon we were talking about people we love who have cancer but who refuse to surrender their identities to becoming ‘cancer patients’. By the time Dan had walked me through the process of telling Susan some of the many things I’ve learning from working with her…
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