Regina Garson

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Columns:
-- Exploring Huntsville
-- Race & Ethnicity

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-- About
-- Articles & Writing Clips
-- Essays
-- Editing and Content Development
-- Video Production
-- Copy Writing Clips
-- Creative Clips and Samples
-- Tech Clips and Credits
-- Presentations
-- Honors, Awards & Recognition
-- Memberships
-- Contact Regina

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Magic Stream
-- About the Site
-- Blog

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About Regina

Regina Pickett Garson is a writer, editor and online publisher. A Behavioral Scientist by training, her publishing credits have ranged from the hard, to the social and behavioral sciences, and causes, to the pure creative. She has worked as a writer/technical area specialist for the Ares First Stage Team at Marshall Space Flight Center (MSFC). She also has two online columns; one is locally focused on Huntsville, Alabama. The other covers issues of race and ethnicity....
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Ares RIFs, HSP and life does go on

Times are changing and my head is spinning. This is not just changing times for me; it is pretty close to changing times for life as I knew and expected it to be. Hundreds in our area and thousands of others around the country were hit with a brand new acronym -- RIF -- Reduction in Force. Of course, NASA is famous for acronyms. It took me a minute on this one though. I kept seeing RIF, but it didn't sink in at first. It means "layoff." This one was right sizeable and it got me, too. I think people mostly don't want to admit that THEY got laid off. But face it; the economy in this country is in a mess, a big one. Layoffs have hit a whole lot of good people, bad people too if you want to know the truth. This layoff thing in the US of A is just about to the level they say of "death" and "taxes," sooner or later -- it's coming. With that knowledge...
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TV Interview

In my volunteer efforts with Huntsville Space Professionals (HSP), I spoke with local TV channel Fox 54's Ellis Eskew to help promote the HSP Career Fair. Our group coordinated the career fair to help get people back to work after federal budget cuts brought hundreds of RIFs (layoffs) to Ares contract employees at Marshall Space Flight Center.

Ares Quarterly Progress Report #16

This was the last video the Ares Video Outreach Group (of which I was a part) produced before we were dispersed, along with the other Ares RIFs. This was very much a team effort. As with the previous Ares Quarterly Video Updates, my part was collecting and verifying the technical details and information for the Ares First Stage footage.
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Examiner.com Columns

Examiner.com is in the middle of a major site upgrade, and some of my columns may be down for a while in the transistion. The site, links and articles should all be back up and in order in just a few more days. In the meantime though, I cover Exploring Huntsville, a what's going on in the neighborhood kind of thing. I also do another column that focuses on issues of race and ethnicity.

Some of my articles include:
-- What is STEM? Why is it important?
-- Why is Huntsville called "the Rocket City?"
-- Huntsville Space Professionals Job Fair.
-- Gentle warriors: A Mother's Day tribute to our Native-American foremothers

Magic Stream

Magic Stream is a multi-faceted literary e-zine, mental health, self-help and wellness resource. The primary focus is on personal growth and the universal in human emotion. With a mind/body focus, emotional fitness is approached in much the same way as physical fitness and very frequently in a like manner, since the two are so inextricably related. Among the earliest online self-help resources, I started Magic Stream in 1994.

Writing a Research Paper Presentation

Recently, I spoke on "Writing a Research Paper" to one of the English Classes at Virginia College. I taught there for right at five years, so it was a lot of fun to go back and visit. Here are copies of my presentation and the handout:

-- PowerPoint Presentation on How to Write a Research Paper.
-- The Research Paper Handout.