“ Everybody has a story. If you have a pulse you’re inside one now.”

For as long as I can remember I loved to read personal interviews. I liked the spontaneity of one question leading to another and what happens when two people drill down. A few words and the life they’re living floats in and sharpens the conversation. You understand something about them, and hopefully they feel understood.

My work happens to be all about people in a moment of major change and how they feel about it informs everything. What happens depends on perspective and the skill in your response. I think change is something you build your way into. One decision supports the next and it all comes together, like a story, in a way that makes sense.

Everybody has a story. If you have a pulse you’re inside one now. Where you are - it’s because of past decisions and events, timing, and of course other people.

So much useless information flashes before my eyes and enters my brain (all day long) it makes sense to crave conversations that feel real and require some depth. Scrolling seldom tells you what actually happened, why it matters, how it all went down and how things came together in the end.

Those are stories. Stories inspire other people.

That would be a good way to describe The Franklin Hills Project.