From Brazil to the US is a part of Susan Belian Shdo Crane’s life story. My Aunt Susan is 89 years old.

My wife Ann and I went to visit Aunt Susan the day after Thanksgiving in 2017. Susan spoke about being an "immigrant family" in Brazil, and her subsequent move to the US.

Joe Beda on open source as a positive sum game

Joe Beda shares with Julia and Amanda about his multigenerational family history with computers, his changing experience with open source since submitting the first commit to Kubernetes, and how the future of open source contains both 'danger and opportunity'.

"Row your own Boat" and other wise words in the life of Roberta "Bobbie" Sahr

Laura Rosenfeld (32) talks with her grandmother, Roberta "Bobbie" Sahr (82) about her childhood, courtship and marriage with her husband, John Sahr, and advice for her grandchildren.

14 year old Aidan interviews his grandpa, Pat Fleet, about how he became a doctor.

Dr. Pat Fleet has had a long and interesting career as a nephrologist at Harborview Medical Center in Seattle. His grandson, Aidan, wants to know all about how he got started and what being a doctor has meant to him.

Theresa, Rachel, & Joel Bervell

Theresa sat with her children Rachel and Joel and talk about Theresa's late cousin Paul who died from COVID-19 in December of 2020. They also discuss the health inequities within the Black and minority communities and did it have an...

Richard Verver: A rich life interrupted by leukemia.

This is Richard's story of being diagnosed and treated for leukemia, going through a blood and marrow transplant, and life afterwards. Richard was a longtime volunteer at the University of Washington Medical Center Health Information Resource Center and UWMC Inpatient...

Jennifer Justice & Kirsten Lavery

Jennifer shares her story with Kirsten of how through a series of unfortunate events she went from "supermom" to dealing with an opiate addiction and living on the streets. While on the streets she got pregnant with her third child....

Betty Herringshaw, Linda Lander, Becca Brubaker

Betty Herringshaw (86) talks with her daughter, Linda Lander (64) and granddaughter, Becca Brubaker (26) about her life

"I see you. I hear you. And I ache for you."

In May 2020, communities across the United States were emerging from shelter-at-home measures put in place to stem the COVID-19 pandemic. In Minneapolis, George Floyd, an unarmed Black man, was killed when a white police officer kneeled on his neck...

Jesse Barnes and Yong Ho Lee

Interview describing what it was like to immigrate to the United States from South Korea in 1974, eventually becoming one of the first Asian police office in a three county area (centered around Brazos County) in Texas in 1988.

Joey Kane and Storey Squires

A volunteer turned employee reflects on his time at The Mount since he was a baby and why this is a place of friendship and love for him.

I dropped out of college and joined the Air Force, and then they put me right back in college to study Russian… Isn't it ironic?

Jack Jaffe talks about growing up in Portland (Ladd's Addition), Albany, Yakima, and Salem, dropping out of college, joining the Air Force, and going to Vietnam, where the South Vietnamese Army was having a little conflict with the South Vietnamese...

Grandma’s Hawaii: Cowboy Serials and $.10 Cent One Ton Minh

An interview with my grandma, Anne Lee Lewis. She grew up in Honolulu, Hawaii in the early 1900s. She was one of five sibling born to a Korean father who was a contract laborer on the early sugar plantations and...

Jim Farley & Eric Delgado

Jim and Eric met through the Walk A Mile program. Jim works as the Patient Registration SCDIC at Swedish Cherry Hill and Eric is CFO for our hospitals in the Seattle area. Through the program, Eric was better able to...

A Lifetime of Love

At first glance, my grandfather Larry Gaston looks like a guy you don't want to mess with. Grizzled grey hair, an ever-present 5 o'clock shadow, war-torn scars on every inch of skin. But underneath the hard exterior lies a man...

Shaul Stone and Ira Stone

Shaul Stone: 2020-06-21 17:35:49 Shaul speaks to his Father Ira, a lifelong Conservative rabbi about his memories and thoughts on life.

Storey Squires and Steve Heck

This 63 year old professional at a non-profit, long term care facility talks about the institutional and personal impact of Covid on staff and residents.

Benjamin Marshall & Laura Smith

Laura recently met Benjamin, who went to school with her brother, Berkeley, who has Down syndrome. Benjamin sat next to Berkeley in sixth grade and he talked about the impact that year had on his life. Because of his exposure...

Defining Happiness and Family

In this interview we talked about family, marriage, and happiness. We discussed why family is important and what our hopes are for one another.

Karen Summers & Scott Acord

Karen shares a story about the role her Catholic faith has played in her life and how it has led to her work in mission support at Providence. She also talks about what Christmas means to her and the holiday...

Melody Fawcett, Nathan Blunt, Hilary Rajchel

Melody met her cousins, Nathan and Hilary about ten years ago as a result of genealogy research. They come together today to share what brought them to their searches and the impact it had on them and the family.

Michael Waddington and Tamar Lively

Michael Waddington: 2020-06-03 00:32:13 Michael Waddington and Tamar Lively talk about how their lives have changed. Moving from childhood to adulthood and living in Seattle in the middle of a pandemic.