Carolyn Dimmick Final PDF.indd - Washington Secretary of State

Hughes: Do you have any kind of interesting hobby or research that you’re doing that’s
related to your career? I read that you once had a loom.
Dimmick: Oh, a weaving loom. Sure.
Hughes: Did you loom stuff?
Dimmick: You don’t “loom,” John; you weave. (laughing) Yes, I wove some things. I wove
some scarves. I wove some pillows, and I wove a couple of wall hangings. … I’ve taken a lot
of art classes. I’ve taken jewelry making. I’ve taken jewelry design. I’ve taken paper making.
Hughes: Do you paint?
Dimmick: I don’t paint. I can’t draw anything.
Hughes: I can’t either.
Dimmick: I think it’s something we just told ourselves, “Oh, I can’t do that.”
Hughes: You know the guy who wrote the book All I Really Need to Know I Learned in
Kindergarten?
Dimmick: Right.
Hughes: He says that if you go into a second-grade classroom and you ask, “Who can sing?
Who can dance? Who can draw?” They all raise their hands. But then as we get older we
get inculcated with the notion that “I can’t do that.”
I read that you like mystery novels.
Dimmick: Still do. The last one I just read was (John) Grisham’s book, The Associate.
Hughes: He’s a lawyer isn’t he?
Dimmick: Yes. But I tell you he could never practice law. This last book just tore into the
big law firms and their charging practices and how they run their show.
Hughes: Do you think that’s true? For the record, the judge is nodding.
Dimmick: (laughing) The judge has no comment. Having never been on the inside of a
big law firm I don’t know. But I’ll tell you that the big law firms who read that, and the
business people who have them on retainers are going to give it another thought.
Hughes: Grisham’s plot narratives are really strong, aren’t they?
Dimmick: Well, he’s got the experience. He’s right on the inside.
Hughes: Did you ever think about writing stuff like that?
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