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Betty Olson-Zajichek (85) and Susan Zajicheck (60) interviewed by their granddaughter and daughter Maria Kemp (28). Betty and Susan talk about Betty’s childhood and young adult life, Betty’s late husband Hal, and favorite family memories.

Ann Wales (49) interviews her mother Joyce Ostergren about growing up during the Great Depression, their family, and how Joyce met her husband.

Spouses, Maria Roque (68) and Jorge Roque [no age given], share a conversation about their growing up in Cuba, immigration to the U.S., and the things they find precious in life.

Brian Jones, 30, interviews his wife Melissa Weimer, 30 about her choice to become a doctor and the challenges she faces in her career.

Eric Robinson talks about how difficult it has been to watch his son, a senior in high school in March 2020, grappled with the disappointments of the Covid-19 shutdowns. Because of the nationwide stay-at-home orders all three of his sons...

Ruby tells her daughters Jill and Jennifer about being adopted, meeting their father, and later finding her birth mother

Louise Prairie interviews John Boniello, her father, on the occasion of his 80th birthday. He talks about growing up on his family’s farm in upstate New York; driving a tractor trailer at age 13 from upstate to NYC to deliver...

Chris Walsh (76) talks with her grandson, AP Didier (18) about her childhood in Orangeburg, South Carolina during the 1950s-1960s in the Jim Crow south, her father's experience in a German POW camp, and how her town has evolved since...

Man talks to his daughter about his WWII experiences

Poet Molly Peacock (73) talks with her husband, Michael Groden (73), a James Joyce scholar, about their sixty-year love story that was interrupted for twenty years. They talk about ongoing love, Mike's melanoma, the novel Ulysses, and the parallel lives...

In this interview I ask my grandmother questions about her life and how times have changed. We go over her falling in love, losing loved ones, her battle with cancer, how things are different from when she was a kid,...

One Small Step conversation partners Emily Forest (49) and Nate Davis (38) talk about different walks of life, juvenile detention, the influence of faith, and wealth disparities.

Friends Yvonne Rodriguez (47) and Jesús Pando (54) talk about going to college in their 30s, majoring in Physics, their ethnic backgrounds and their family.

39 year old woman interviews her 72 year old mother about her upbringing, having a family, and her career as a teacher.

Ian Travis Durso(24) interviews his mother, Wendy Durso(53) about her life growing up in Ny in the 70s-90s, meeting her father for the first time in 20 years, and what she remembers during September 11th, 2001.

Robert Reisler (18) talks with his grandmother Reina Reisler (79) about superstitions, the good old days, Klondike bars for 45 minutes.

Audrey, 51, interviews her mother, Maria, about growing up in Shanghai, immigrating to the United States, and her family.

Woman interviews her friend about his job redesigning Dutch governmental forms, being born during German occupation to a Menonite family that hid Jews, education, isolation and rebellion against authority.