This isn't just a place to post updates about films, photographs, books, or whatever project currently has me chasing ideas across maps and notebooks.

It's a place to think out loud.

Some posts will be about documentary filmmaking. Others will wander into writing, photography, audio storytelling, or the strange, wonderful process of discovering what a project is really about. Increasingly, I've found that the work has a way of leading me somewhere I wasn't expecting. I may set out to document a radio station and end up asking questions about community, memory, belonging, or how a place can shape an entire creative life.

I'm interested in stories rooted in people, place, and connection. Those stories don't exist in isolation. They're influenced by changing political landscapes, public policy, environmental challenges, technology, and the communities that live through those changes every day. Sometimes those forces become the subject of a project. Other times, they quietly shape it from the background.

Current projects include Raven Radio: Voices Across the Water, a documentary exploring the role of community radio in Southeast Alaska, along with writing, photography, and other documentary work that examines the relationship between people and the places they call home. You'll also find thoughts on creative process, the occasional false start, unexpected breakthroughs, and the lessons that seem to appear only after you've pointed a camera or microphone at someone else.

This isn't intended to be a polished highlight reel. It's more like a field journal—a record of ideas unfolding in real time, questions that don't always have immediate answers, and the moments of recognition that remind me why I started telling stories in the first place.

If you've found your way here, I hope you'll come along for the journey. I suspect we'll both discover where it's leading at about the same time.