Pose and wait redux

Just like a lake, today I will be asking questions and waiting for answers as I interview one fascinating woman for a profile article I'm writing. Interviewing people can be nerve-racking. One's questions, for instance, may appear idiotic, pointless, or otherwise not well thought out, falling like overbaked scones on the coffee table. One's interviewee may be an introvert or a mime or, worse in some respects but more exciting in others, a big fat liar. Or one's interviewee's green-winged macaw might prove overly aggressive and try to break one's thumb with its nut-cracking beak. In the face of such challenges, we at Brightly suggest that, when interviewing, don't interrupt, and keep your thumbs to yourself.

The Dickinsonian oracle offers this advice:

We never know we go when we are going -
We jest and shut the Door -
Fate - following - behind us bolts it -
And we accost no more -
(E. Dickinson, 1546)