About
A practice rooted in listening.
Evergreen Chronicles began with a single, specific worry: that I would run out of time to ask my father everything I wanted to know. He is 89 now. The questions kept getting larger and the windows for asking them kept getting smaller.
What started as a private project — recordings, scanned photographs, a private website for our family — became something I wanted to do for other people. Not everyone is a writer. Not everyone wants to be the protagonist of a polished memoir. But almost everyone has a story they would be glad to leave behind, if someone helped them unlock what was already there.
My role is part interviewer, part archivist, part designer. I sit with you (or the person you love), ask better questions from having honed this craft, and shape what comes back into something the people who matter most can hold onto.
Beliefs that guide the work
- The best stories emerge from putting someone completely at ease to be entirely candid.
- What's ordinary to you is often the most precious to the people who love you.
- A life doesn't need to be famous to be worth chronicling.
- Form should follow the person — not the other way around.