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One Small Step conversation partners Patrick Tyrrell (20) and Charlotte Hammond (18) find many commonalities and differences in their life experiences, general attitudes towards life and dreams of the future. They discuss religion, their parents, abortion and sex ed, and...

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Friends and co-organizers Nureaka Ross (28) and Lynette Mejia (51) discuss their involvement in advocating for their local library system and obstacles they have faced along the way.

One Small Step conversation partners Jean Bourg (78) and Brad Sealfon (36) talk about family, growing up, religion, sexuality, community, libraries, planning boards, and living in small towns.

Significant partners Tara Anura (47) and Rebecca Varney (64) sit down to discuss rural politics and local activism. They express their appreciation and pride for one another and the work they do in their community despite how disheartening it can...

Laura Peterson (52) talks with her sorority sister Martha Saunders (93) about her upbringing, education, and work with the community.

One Small Step conversation partners Andrew Hersey (63) and Willis Jackson (77) discuss about politics.

Dale Morgan (78) talks with her friend, Alice Lundstrom (76), about childhood, adulthood, faith, lifelong learning, and legacy.

One Small Step partners Laura Middlebrooks (53) and Ted Wiaziowski (47) have a conversation about how they have grown as people and the influences on their lives.

Diane Hayes Powers (69) speaks to her daughter Destiny McLurkin (39) about being a part of Seattle's bussing program during school desegregation. Diane speaks about the challenges she faced as a Black student at a majority white school and how...

Connie Smith (65) interviews her friend and neighbor Darla Close (83) about her childhood, her love of cats and reading, her marriages, and her travels.

Emily Estes was the Expedition Project Manager for JOIDES Resolution EXP 390 and has sailed on over a dozen additional oceanographic research expeditions. She shares the value of bringing books out to sea and has an interesting approach to selecting...

[Recorded: Thursday, April 27, 2023] Yasir (22) and Evelyn (21) have a One Small Step conversation in Charlottesville, Virginia. Yasir is an undergraduate student at the University of Virginia studying biology on a pre-med track. Evelyn is also an undergraduate...

Brendan John [no age given] talks to his father, Barney John [no age given], about Barney's experience growing up Catholic in Karachi, Pakistan. They reflect on the formation of their belief systems, their faith, and their family.

Friends Russ Howell (70) and Paul Reeves (60) share a conversation about their love of reading. The two talk about their relationship with reading growing up, the books that have impacted them, and the miracle of losing yourself in a...

One Small Step partners Frances Boynton (63) and Charlie Nelson (67) sit down for a conversation as neighbors in the town of Richmond, VA. They find they agree that we have a lot more in common than we have differences,...

My Grandfather, Luke Howe (or Bop Bop) talks about his life as a child in the cold war, his experience as the owner of a hardware store, and how he intends to live the rest of his life.

One Small Step partners Kathleen "Kathy" Bray (74) and Louise Feinberg (79) talk about their experiences as teachers, their children and grandchildren, and the impact that serious injuries have had on their lives.

My Dad, Glenn, in the summer of 1976 sold books door-to-door in North Carolina. He has lots of stories about events that happened while doing so, in addition to character traits of all the different types of people he met.

One Small Step partners Doug Lyon (58) and David Burke (52) discuss the merits of liberal and conservative approaches to different issues and share stories of how their backgrounds have shaped their beliefs.

Friends Natasha Herring (47) and Milton Washington [no age given] discuss their origins of inspiration as writers. They begin the conversation with how they met as writers and the similarities between their experiences as children who experienced housing instability/being orphans....

Clint McGuire (56) continues his conversation with his former professor and long-time friend Jack Benjamin (71) about Jack's years building and running a theatre department at the University of South Carolina Aiken. This conversation mainly covers the years 1996-2001. This...

One Small Step partners Scott Gordon (71) and Randy Schwartz (52) find common ground through their inverse political journeys.

Rebecca Nyman Ellis (47) interviews her mother, Ruth Lawson (68), about the life of Ruth's great-great-grandmother, Matilda Poole.

David Joy (38) speaks with his friend, mentor, and bonus grandma to his children, Kathy Gambles (75), about their decades of friendship, starting when David was a kindergartener in Kathy's library. They discuss what they've learned from each other, the...