Topics include: childhood, family and education; Brooklyn College; early employment; wartime work as statistician for the U.S. Weather Bureau with Glenn Brier, Jerome Namias; graduate work in statistics and meteorology at New York University (NYU); marriage to Joe Smagorinsky; work as programmer for the Meteorology Project, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton; memories of John von Neumann, and other Project staff; motherhood and working in the 1950s; trip to Russia; memories of Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Laboratory (GFDL) staff; work in neuropsychiatric research; and reflections on Joe Smagorinsky.