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Big Changes

Over the years I’ve been asked several times, “What’s it like to be a documentary filmmaker?” I’ve come up with a concise response: “Today may be the best time in history to be making documentary films…and, it may also be the most difficult time in history to do so.”

Why is it the “best time”? That’s easy. The cameras, editing and animation equipment (once too expensive for anyone except major networks and Hollywood studios) are now available to

Merry Christmas from the Moon

On Christmas Eve 1968, three American astronauts became the first human beings to orbit the moon. It was one of the greatest achievements in history.

Four months earlier—while embroiled with the Soviet Union in a heated race to the moon—NASA made an aggressive and potentially dangerous decision. They would accelerate the Apollo mission schedule by skipping two key test flights.

Launched into space on December 21, Apollo 8 crewmen William Anders, James Lovell and

The greatness and glory of God shine forth marvelously in all his works and is to be read in the open book of the heavens.       ~ Galileo Galilei

Call of the Cosmos

Many years ago, when our four sons were young, Joni and I bought them a telescope.  I remember the first time we set it up in the front yard and aimed it at a full moon. WOW!  The details of the lunar surface