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One Small Step partners Vanessa Schoon Smith (45) and Heather Brownlie (50) discuss the assumptions people make about them, political extremism drowning out moderatism, social media encouraging divisiveness, and their hopes for the future.

While waiting for our Thanksgiving lunch at the nursing home I interviewed my mom who has advanced Alzheimer's.

Brandon Lewis interviews his father, Jerald Lewis, about the family's experience with Susan Lewis's posterior cortical atrophy.

One Small Step partners James Sweeney (69) and Wally Long (63) discuss their community work, their mutual belief that the right to vote is "sacred," and why face-to-face conversations are so important.

Rita DeQuattro (93) talks with her daughter, Barbara Filipe [no age given], and her granddaughter, Elizabeth "Liz" Filipe (26), about her life in Massachusetts and the love she has for her family.

Sat down with my grandma, who is suffering with memory loss, to talk about her childhood and her current life.

Ninety-one year old Henry Raymont talks about his life and love with help from my mother, Wendy Marcus Raymont, who has Alzheimer’s disease. They live together in Mexico.

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Asking my grandma questions.

Gwen was born 12/31/1936, during WWII, in San Antonio, TX. Gwen is 83 years old and has Alzheimer’s. This is a recollection of her childhood.

Interview with Mary Lou Martino

My grandmother, who we call grammy, told me about her life as a nurse, stay-at-home mom, cancer survivor, and traveller. She is very dedicated to documenting things with photos, so it was interesting to the hear stories behind them. My...

Evan Insley talks to Jim Reisinger about growing up in Rochester during the 40s and 50s. Also included life as a father and grandfather. His work life and why he decided to quit his job as a teacher to becoming...

Retirement, Holiday Cruises, Wife's Alzheimer's, Leave Not tingham

Childhood and Advice.

This conversation between Sonya(20) and her dad, Sylvain(61), explores broadcast news from the perspective of someone who works behind the camera. Sylvain has worked for CBC for almost four decades and details how he found himself doing this work, the...

An interview with my father on life, change, and new understandings since his Alzheimer's diagnosis two years ago.

Houston Dougharty (61) interviews his brother Phil Dougharty (72) about their upbringing in New Mexico, growing up in the Southern Baptist Church, and Phil's experience coming out as gay at the age of 36.

One Small Step partners John Hammer (59) and Jessica DePrest Rhine (44) have a conversation about how they deal with political divisiveness inside their relationships and experiences they have had with religion.

Darlene Lodge, 80, talks with her daughter, Lynn Payne, 56, about growing up in Cedar Rapids, Iowa during the Depression and about her marriages to Lynn’s father and to Donald Lodge.

Here I interview my mother about her brief life in Ecuador and as that of an immigrant in the United States

Am interview with my grandmother Bubbie

I decided it was time to learn more about my grandma so I sat down with her on a Saturday morning and asked some questions.

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In this interview I reflected on the past year and a half since the diagnosis of my father’s Alzheimer’s. It’s just me with some thoughts about the judgements people make about the way my family has attempted to navigate how...