“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.

What do you do in your spare time?

If you’re like our colleagues, your first reaction to this question is likely…what spare time? However, you probably fill your time away from work with a variety of interesting activities […]

What do you wish you spent more time doing five years ago?

In addition to asking some colleagues this question—those who responded in this column—I put this question to others in my life. I thought I was noticing a generational tendency yet […]

What’s the most beautiful place you’ve ever been?

In case you have some travel dreaming to do or otherwise just like to hear what people consider beautiful, our colleagues answer this question with heart. In this column, adopted […]

If you could invent something, what would you invent (even if it’s not real, like a time machine or a magic wand)?

I am struck, three years after having started writing this column, by how different the responses are today than they may have been if the occurrence of a global pandemic […]

What sparks your creativity, makes the wheels in your head start turning?

Not all of us are artists, inventors, or original thinkers. However, in our busy and engaged lives we do face circumstances or opportunities to create something that wasn’t there before. […]


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