Teacher * Researcher * Sociologist
I recently watched an absorbing documentary about the historian Robert Caro and his long-time book editor Robert Gottlieb. The title of the film is “Turn Every Page” – from a quote that Caro often cites when talking about his research. When he was a young reporter, his editor Alan Hathaway, told him: “Just remember, turn […]
UPDATED August 11 , 2024. After a year and a half of research, my Moonshot Astronaut Families project has taken on a sharper focus: the story of one cohort of astronaut families, particularly the wives, of NASA Astronaut Group 3, and a longer time frame (so much data and still more to gather). Below is […]
Celebrating my mom today. She would have been 85 years old. She died in 2016, before I had the idea for my current research project (Moonshot Astronaut Families). I spent many hours going through her papers after she died, and I discovered new, and sometimes surprising, insights into her life during the early astronaut days. […]