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One Small Step partners Wendy Brooking (52) and Brian Speer (45) have a conversation about their childhoods, political polarization, and patriotism.

Lucretia talks about growing up in Kansas, her family, and the importance of loving and accepting others regardless of race or religion.

Lucretia talks about growing up in Kansas, her family, and the importance of loving and accepting others regardless of race or religion

I (Cora, 15) interviewed my mother’s parents, Nana (Bonnie, 70) and Papa (John, 70). They talked about their time growing up as well as raising my mother.

I had a conversation with Sergeant Christie about his service in the Army and service in Kansas, Germany, Sarajevo, Bosnia, and Afghanistan. We discussed his initial experiences in boot camp and fond memories of working with his comrades. Sergeant Christie...

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.

Anna talks about her childhood, courtship, life experiences, and faith.

I’m interviewing my neighbor Kelly Cronin. I’m asking her about her life. Her favorite memories.

One Small Step participants Annette Karr (72) and John Baker (57) talk about feeling misunderstood by the other side, respecting others, shifting beliefs, and religious beliefs.

Brady Sih (52) talks with his father Ping Sih (82) about his childhood and moving from China to HK to Taiwan, back to HK and then to Kansas and ultimately the Bay Area: 2022-10-23 22:55:39

Kailey interviews her father Dave. He is a great story teller and talks of a time when high-schoolers played pranks, and family was similar to a 50s TV show. For Dave, everything led to racing and a legacy of entrepreneurial...

One Small Step conversation partners Raleigh Hinman [no age given] and Ty Patton [no age given] talk about polarization, politics, corporate regulations, and what is means to be Kansan.

One Small Step partners Sharon Powell Quincy (74) and Damon Ward (47) connect over their desire to help their community and those in need from opposite sides of the aisle.

One Small Step partners, Marcus Loganbill (67) and Betty Farrell (76) learn about each other's beliefs by discuss their role as teachers, relationship to their respective churches and their early memories of politics.

One Small Step conversation partners, Anne Eastwood (71) and Colin Smith (31), discuss issues of politics and faith across a generational divide.

Natasha Herring (47) interviews her conversation partner Sandra "Sandy" Halvorson [no age given] about her experience getting into contact with her biological parents and how being adopted has impacted her sense of identity.

Karyn Mucklow (63) and her One Small Step partner Lauren Lambert (21) exchange travel stories, anecdotes from former times, and life lessons.

One Small Step conversation partners Stephanie Marinez (37) and Brent Sinclair (64) talk about their love of Kansas, pro-choice/abortion issue, feminism, conservative/liberal viewpoints, racism and finding common ground.

One Small Step conversation partners Kandee Klein (73) and David Thatcher (64) talk about the forces that shaped their political values, perceptions of liberalism and conservatism, patriotism, and what it means to be a Kansan.

One Small Step conversation partners and siblings Nancy Harness (66) and Eric Keller (57) talk about growing up in the same household at different time periods and how that shaped their differing world views. They also discussed the Covid vaccine,...

Kt talks to Grandpa Lanoue about living and working in Cloud county Kansas in the early 1950s.

Tallulah (16) talked to her grandfather, Vic (84), about his life and the differences compared to today with commentary from her older brother, John (19).

We talked about my grandfather's life and everything he did growing up.

Family, love, teaching, and life

My mom and I talk about what it was like to become a mother, a nurse, and being a single mother. Listen from 7:07-9:00. That’s what I will be covering in my memoir.