By Gary Hume | Oct 16, 2014
I came to America as an immigrant with three little boys in 1968, and I worked for Head Start – a new program at the time for early childhood. It was in Detroit, where poverty was rampant – there had been huge riots there – and I believed that people...
By Gary Hume | Oct 16, 2014
I was a newspaper journalist for 40 years in Chicago, Washington, D.C. and Detroit, Michigan – my hometown – the last 22 years spent as a medical writer. I was one of 22 senior staffers offered buyouts in 2012 and retired several years before I had...
By Gary Hume | Oct 16, 2014
I retired from the United States Navy in 1998 after having served my final tour as the first woman to be the second-in-command of the USS Constitution, the U.S. Navy’s 200-year old, three-masted sailing ship. Re-entering the civilian world, I began a career in...
By Gary Hume | Oct 16, 2014
I retired as a faculty member at the University of Washington after 36 years in the anthropology department. When I thought about what to do next, naturally I thought about what I had been doing for so many years as an active researcher and teacher – and put a...
