Running the DIY Memory Lab is genuinely a great joy and honor in my life. The work that I get to do as a person who assists people digitizing their home movies and family photos is greatly rewarding, especially since a lot of the equipment we provide for the public is inaccessible and/or expensive for the average person.

It’s the time of year when I consciously review, remember, and recognize significant portions of my life that focus on my neighborhood, my family, and the friends I’ve met along the way. I am a sixth-generation Arkansan on my maternal side. The five generations before me are the reason I exist and the reason I have the courage to be who I am.

People often ask me what I’m working on.

It’s one of those questions like, “What do you do?” You know that you’re supposed to answer it with reference to your job, what pays the bills and all that. But maybe, for a moment, before you spill out all the expected information, you let yourself think about it and realize that,