Raising Bilingual Kids and their childhood songs

We are not Hispanic, but made teaching our kids Spanish a priority. Being bilingual opens up a part of the world my kids wouldn't have access to without the second language. They sing songs in Spanish that we used to...

A Conversation With My Mother

My mother and I discuss the difficulties of living with Crohn’s disease.

“Three things in human life are important. The first is to be kind. The second is to be kind. The third is to be Kind.” Henry James

I interviewed Ms. Herron because I have known Ms. Herron for seven years but I felt like I didn't know everything about her at the same time. I thought that doing this interview with Ms. Herron will give me a...

A walk into the past with my grandmother

The interview was conducted in my living room. We disscussed what it was like for her growing up with 5 kids in her family in a small town in a rural area. What games she liked to play, what she...

Nana raises, teaches, and sets examples for kids.

I talked to Nana about her childhood and her being raised with four brothers! She talked about setting examples for her brothers and the students she taught being a Sunday School teacher and a piano teacher. We talked about her...

Nancy Saad on Julian Saad

Mom going through treatment for metastatic stage IV breast cancer discussing her son’s role as her Caregiver

Reflecting on the past 96 years.

This is an interview with my Grandma, Yolanda Costa, on her 96th birthday. She grew up in Greenpoint, New York. She was one of 11 children in a large Catholic family. She was married to her husband, Joseph Costa for...

The twins of Engineering genius.

Interview about why Roscoe Boone wanted to pay taxes. And how his twin sons, Dick and Doug, who built a hang glider in middle school, went on to design hang gliders that helped them fly beside eagles and end up...