Catching up

A little over two weeks after my last post, my Grandmother died. We were very close. Since March, I have been running her estate, working tons, finishing up the semester, traveling for work and playing nurse for my younger sister who was hospitalized twice. It's been a crazy journey.

On the professional side of things it's been busy as well. My article "Over Here: Marines in Texas during WWI" was published in Fortitudine and I am currently awaiting word on a proposed article about the Marine Corps History Division. I am hot on the trail of a very interesting story from the annals of Marine Corps history after running across a snippit on APS from 1918. More on that later.

I'm knee deep in two works on military history. I was able to hear Dr Jeremy Black speak while I attending the Society for Military History conference in April. His work Rethinking Military History is very good and I've marked the pages up with plenty of notes and questions. I am also reading Dr Williamson Murray's work The Past as Prologue--another interesting piece that gives me more background and understanding of the profession I have chosen.

Interns are back for the summer. I was able to chose my intern--an undergrad from Mary Washington who was doing pro bono work for MSG HQ on base. I lured him away with money--he wasn't getting paid at MSG. He is turning out to be a great help and very interested in the unique work we do in the office. If he was graduating next year I would tell him to be ready as many retirements are going to start and we are going to be looking for someone to join, in a junior capacity.

As I do not want to run on, I will leave things as they are and post this. As my research project fleshes out I will post it on here. Enjoy!

~Cheers