“She says I told her I wanted to be an astronaut in the July 4th parade in my hometown, and she wrapped me up in tinfoil and I marched in the parade as a tinfoil Mercury astronaut.
“My mother says I wanted to be an astronaut when I was 4 or 5,” he said. But even if you’re not chosen, you’re encouraged to continue updating your application each year.Īnd Anderson was more than willing to follow the advice – after all, it was something he’d wanted for decades. And that handful is then whittled down through interviews and medical physicals to the few who will actually be invited to join the next astronaut class. Out of the thousands of applications the astronaut office receives, only a few dozen applicants are chosen to come to Houston for a personal interview when a class is being selected. The process of becoming an astronaut has a lot of steps, and the first is applying. Image above: Expedition 15 Flight Engineer Clay Anderson poses for a photo with a U.S. I simply submitted the application and then waited 15 years to get an interview.” “1983 was the first time that I was technically eligible to submit an astronaut application, because I had a master’s degree and one year of experience,” Anderson said. Now, after 24 years of anticipation, he’s in space. He applied to the astronaut program 15 times before even getting an interview, and then waited two more years before being selected in 1998.
"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.Clay Anderson could replace The Little Engine That Could as the mascot for persistence. He lives in the mountains of North Georgia with his two dogs. He is currently an MFA student in Creative Writing at Reinhardt University. He received his BA in History from Kennesaw State University and MA from Mississippi State University. Clara is reluctant to the friendship at first but soon realizes Ronnie is the only man she’s ever known who didn’t want her just for drugs or sex.Ĭlay Anderson is an Adjunct Professor of History at Reinhardt University in Waleska, Georgia. In Mary, Ronnie finds the daughter he never got to raise.
The Palms weaves the stories and points-of-view of Ronnie, Clara, and Mary as they form a blended family and try to build a new existence. Daily life for Ronnie changes when he befriends Mary, the seven-year-old girl who lives next door with her mother, Clara, a drug-addicted prostitute. He lives in a run-down trailer park outside Pensacola, Florida, and busies himself by maintaining his trailer-it’s the nicest in the park-and never being late for work. Sixty-eight-year-old Ronnie Wells has recently been paroled for a murder he committed thirty-six years before.
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