A Midwestern girl with a penchant for the dramatic, I want to capture the reverberation of the thunder, the buzzing energy of a street fair and the echoes of the past in an abandoned house. With the generous tools of the nonfiction storyteller - video, photo, sound and text - I have acquired a new kind of purpose: to translate the invisible into something seen, the silent into something heard, so that I may understand your story and you may understand mine.