Teri’s Notebook: Remembering Marilee Swirczek’s humanity

Sometimes when I interview someone, I have a list of questions. I go down the list, then I leave. More often, however, the interview turns into a conversation. I ask some questions, I answer some questions. Those usually turn out to be the best interviews, when there’s some give and take, and people feel more comfortable being vulnerable. That’s what happened one of the first times I talked with Marilee Swirczek. I was in her office, doing a story about the memoirs class she was tea