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There Is Something Else To Marvel At In The New Marvel Universe Movie. How About the Director?

By deannelson on September 7, 2021

One of the pleasures of teaching at PLNU is that I get to meet great students who become famous Hollywood directors! Here’s my story about Destin Daniel Cretton, director of the new Marvel Universe movie…
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Me? A Guru?

By deannelson on May 6, 2021

Earlier this year the San Diego Union-Tribune had me as a guest on its podcast called Name Drop San Diego. They called me a “Journalism Guru” in the headline. The timing of the program was…
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The Gift Within This Quarantine

By deannelson on July 27, 2020

In the middle of all of the disruption and pain and loss and confusion and uncertainty of the COVID-19 pandemic, there is at least something we can savor. I wrote about it in the San…
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Being Interviewed About Interviewing, By Podcast Interviewers

By deannelson on December 11, 2019

Two podcasts have posted recently, where the host talked with me about the art and craft of conducting great interviews. One was with a management/leadership resources company in London, England, called Mind Tools, and the…
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Remembering Eugene Peterson, Who Gave Me My Most Public Smackdown

By deannelson on October 23, 2018

I talked to Eugene Peterson on the phone earlier this year, inviting him to an event I was trying to organize in San Diego. I asked him if he’d be willing to come. “No,” he…
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What I’m Talking About When I’m Talking About Talking

By deannelson on September 15, 2017

The book I thought I was writing last year was a handbook for writers. But when I submitted it to publishers, one editor responded by saying, “Why aren’t you writing a book about interviewing? You…
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Mother Teresa, The Newest Saint

By deannelson on November 23, 2016

She is the worldwide symbol of selfless service, so when I was given the chance to attend the ceremonies regarding her canonization in Rome, I went for it. No one does pageantry like the Vatican….
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Remembering Paul Miller: Sometimes All It Takes Is a Comment

By deannelson on October 24, 2016

  Here’s how a comment can change a life. I was 19, home from college one summer, and volunteering at a youth camp for a week. The camp director put me in charge of entertainment…
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Why Nikki Giovanni Still Matters

By deannelson on August 9, 2016

This past spring we had Nikki Giovanni, the poet who helped usher in the Black Arts movement in the 1960s, at our Writer’s Symposium By The Sea. She read some of her poems, then talked…
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I Don’t Understand Creole, But I Understood This

By deannelson on July 26, 2016

This essay of mine appeared recently on Donald Miller’s Storyline Blog.   It was a voice out of the wilderness. I was on a path in the mountains in Haiti recently, walking next to a…
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