Topics include: childhood in Germany and Scranton, PA; going to University of Chicago; how he came to be a meteorologist; the meteorology program in Chicago; early work in physics and meteorology; first paper published; other scientists worked with; parameterization work with hurricanes; early problems with programming; early computer modeling; working at Colorado State University (CSU); travels to Mexico and India; reflections on teaching and past graduate students; working for Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL); leaving CSU; visits to Boulder and National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR); other countries meteorological modeling; development of the transform method; three dimensional spectral modeling; Bill Burrows; energy anaylsis; Michigan; sabbatical in Sweden; chairman of the program of meteorology at Maryland; vertical truncation; designing climate models; teaching; numerical hurrican prediction; and international students.