What is your level of self confidence or self esteem? Have you had extreme challenges in your life? How hard have you had to work to maintain an enthusiastic attitude of respect or positive self image? If you had Cerebral Palsy or some other similar disability, would you be doing what you do now at […]
Waldo Henderson is an intense spirit. He and I meet in the Chapel of a hospital where he works as a Chaplain. His shift is from 4pm to 7am the next morning. When we first met, I thought he was shy and unassuming. Later, I learned from experience; he is loud and bombastic (His own […]
Martha Hawkins at her restaurant Martha’s Place. I meet Martha at her restaurant in Montgomery, Al. I was having one of the best Southern cooked meals I have ever had; greens, lima beans, scalloped potatoes, squash casserole etc. But the best was her apple cobbler. While I savored my meal I watched politicians, utility […]
“Bless your Heart, Mama loves you”. The first time I met Ms. Dunugan’s I noticed the Mt. Olive Baptist Church from her window. I felt there was a story about Hope in the air around her and on the street in front of her home. This was her neighborhood. She and her husband had […]
Sara Garden Armstrong Sara is an artist in New York. She has recently come home to Birmingham, Al. in order to create and install a large commissioned sculpture for the Multiple Sclerosis Society. I treasure her friendship and have enjoyed documenting much of her work for 36 years (we were both 15 yrs. old when […]
Dotty Lou Farias sits on the mostly demolished deck that was in front of her home destroyed by hurricane Ivan. I first met Dotty Lou Farias during the early days of the BP oil spill in the gulf of Mexico. She was outside the Gulf Shores, Al. City Hall building confronting several BP emissaries […]
Scott Lumpkin is a film producer, father, husband and skateboarder. I asked Scott how hopeful he felt he was, on a scale of 1 to 10. He replied, “I’m an 8.” I ask what he thinks Hope is, and he says, “Hope is belief without need of proof that it’s gonna be ok. I […]
Peggy Honeycutt is a Hopeful Breast Cancer Survivor. Peggy is a wife, mother, realtor, hiker, backcountry enthusiast and breast cancer survivor. She says to be diagnosed with a very bad disease “is utter sheer terror. There is a photo of herself on her business card that shows her with long blond shoulder length hair. […]
Tom Wofford has re-embraced Hope. Tom’s only brother and that brother’s son both died within a few months of each other. It was tough. He talks about taking care of his elderly parents and what kind of responsibility that is. I say something like, “good for you, you’re a fine fellow!” But he says […]
Alexandria Sanders (Lexi) doesn’t know what Hope is. Though I feel she has as much Hope in her DNA as anybody I know, she is like many, in that she has not been asked before. She is a student at Woodlawn High School in Birmingham, Al. She and I met at her house to talk […]
