“Verbatim”
Early in 2020, Cetane’s Nancy Coop started a human interest column in BPN (Butane-Propane News). Modeled after the familiar “Heard on the Street” interview, Nancy sent questions to a group of propane colleagues who replied by e-mail. The monthly questions and responses were published in BPN and appear here verbatim. It’s an uncommon insight into colleagues’ honest replies to provocative questions.

The new year is nearly here. What resolutions will you make?

Are you considering making a New Year’s resolution on January 1 or thereabouts? Some of our colleagues are quite thoughtful about this tradition and others have their own way of […]

What makes you feel great about yourself?

When you contemplate your answer to this question, how far-reaching is your consideration of possible things that could be legitimate responses? As usual in our monthly column, our responders give […]

What’s something you’ll spend time doing, no matter what?

This question brings responses that are beyond chores. It taps into which nearly or literally daily rituals we may have that make our days complete. In this column, adopted from […]

If you could have lunch with one person (alive or dead), who would it be?

This is not an original question and, in fact, had been asked and answered in this column four long years ago. I liked the answers back then and was curious […]

Do you “work to live” or “live to work”?

This question, like many others previously posed here, has no right answer. However, it is one that tends to give people pause as they reflect on their own aspirations or […]


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