Chandrika Shah

Malini Shah interviews her paternal Grandmother Chandrika V. Shah about her childhood in Baroda, Gujarat (India), family dynamic and experience immigrating to the U.S. in the 1970s.

Conversation 1

Just life and a few basic questions

Story unfolding

Daughter talking to her mother about life before and after kids.

Brooke Mitcham and My Uncle Joseph are Talking About Love, Life, and Family

My Uncle and I talked about his love life and his grandparents. We also talked about his disease and how it has changed his life and others around him. He talked about his great grandparents and his grandparents. We talked...

Psych storycorps

In this interview my grandfather talks about his life and what he feels he got out of it and what he hopes his children and grandchildren will get out of it. He reflects on his life with my grandmother and...

Grammy & Grampy, COVID-19 Pandemic, Aug 2020

Grammy and Grampy answer questions from Finn and Isla: what was my mom like when she was a kid; what’s the worst thing you ever did; how would you like to be remembered?

A student at Lehman ALC, Lurinarda Gonzalez, talks with fellow student, Arnold Serieux about special moments in her life.

On 12/12/2017, at the Lehman College Adult Learning Center, two students, Lurinarda Gonzalez and Arnold Serieux, talk about how it was for Lurinarda, growing up in the Dominican Republic, with her wonderful grandparents. According to Lurinarda, her grandparents would rate...

Bryanna Esqueda and her mother Joanna Esqueda talk about her life’s journey

In this interview, conducted in April 2018 in Rancho Santa Margarita, California, Bryanna Esqueda interview her mom Joanna Esqueda about her childhood and becoming a parent. Mrs. Esqueda shares stories about growing up in El Salvador and building a life...

Thor Fjellstedt – packing family home in North Carolina to move in with son’s family in Florida

Thorsten Fjellstedt 82 interviewed by his son Anders Fjellstedt 42 in Thor’s home of 35 years as he prepares to move to Florida and live with Anders’ family. Thor reflects on his life in his house in Chapel Hill, NC,...

My mom and I (Patricia and Madelyn Birkhead) talk about her experiences growing up and her family in Missouri.

This interview, made in November 2017 in O'Fallon, Missouri, Madelyn (15) interviews her mother (50) about her childhood and her experiences growing up as well as her experiences later in life. She shares her memories of her friends and relatives....

Love, Riots, and Violence, at USC

Ann Garrett, from Clovis, California, in her junior year of USC, 1992, was put into the middle of the Rodney King riots. It is a firsthand story of someone stuck in a violent protest. Interviewed by Luke Garrett, 14, her...

Interview with my mom

This interview is with my mom asking her about her childhood mostly and how she’s come to be a mother.

COVID-19: Jackie Walther of The Square Meal

Jackie Walther and Jackie Neale talk about some of the unexpected outcomes of the coronavirus global pandemic. Jackie and her husband Dan own a short-order, take-out restaurant called The Square Meal in Oaklyn, NJ and on the heels of discussing...