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 […]
Grayson Hunter Grayson is the youngest of our two sons. He works in the film and television business in Atlanta that has grown exponentially recent years. He professes there is more work now being done in the industry there than anywhere. He is extremely good at what he does and takes great pride in staying […]
Chervis Isom, Photographed in the Norwood neighborhood where he grew up and had his paper route. I begin our conversation by explaining how the Obama 2008 election campaign of Hope and Change had inspired my desire to understand what Hope means. His face drops immediately, and he says that it is such a shame […]
“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 […]
Noah Galloway – “I had tourniquets on all four limbs”. Noah did two tours of military duty in Iraq and was injured. I met him while working on a film project for an organization that challenges veterans to go farther physically, mentally and emotionally than they ever thought possible. Noah met that challenge and has […]
Michael Scoggins saves his Grandfather with Hope. He is really close to his Grandfather who is 61 and has his own HVAC company. Michael has been working with him since he was 10. The grandfather always had two jobs and would say “sleeping was for rich folks”. The other day he called to say […]
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 […]
