StoryCorps: Honoring yourself by honoring others
It takes all kinds of people to help support those with HIV. Friends and co-workers Adrienne Elias and Eric Sutter come from very different backgrounds, but they both feel passionate about their work...
View ArticleStoryCorps: A mother remembers meeting her adopted daughter
Before Laurie Brookner adopted Kate, she knew her as only as a blown-up, photocopied photograph. On the photograph was a Chinese name: Yu Mingren . Anxiously, Laurie traveled all the way to Jiangsu in...
View ArticleStoryCorps: A bit of color in the darkest of times
Shortly after World War II in Eastern Europe, Slobodan Dan Paich was just a boy – and he says life felt void of color. He remembers the moment light came back in – it was all thanks to a certain...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Navigating patients to spiritual health at Highland Hospital
From time to time, the StoryCorps team goes mobile, and collects interviews at different sites around the Bay Area. One of the places they visited was Highland Hospital in East Oakland. The public...
View ArticleStoryCorps: One mom, two dads, and one baby
For as long as she could remember, Suzanne Thompson wanted to be a mom, but she was running out of time. She thought of her friend Christopher Noessel and his partner Benjamin Remington, who always...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Healing the mind by way of hospice
When someone is dying, sometimes the best medicine is not medicine at all. And sometimes what needs to be healed, is not the body, but the mind. That is the kind of caretaking that Paul Kelley takes...
View ArticleStorycorps: Keeping a broader perspective
Growing up, BJ Miller understood what it meant to live with a disability. His mother had polio. But until a college accident, Miller never imagined he would live out a similar fate. In college, he had...
View ArticleStoryCorps: coming to terms with religion and sexuality
Elizabeth Beltran-Larios struggled with her identity for much of her childhood. Beltran-Larios was born in Oakland, but she was raised in a small town south of Jalisco, Mexico. Growing up, she felt...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Keith and Tim Harris on "the world's friendliest restaurant"
Today we’re sharing a StoryCorps about a young man with Down syndrome. His name is Tim Harris, and there’s a restaurant in Albuquerque named after him: it’s called " Tim’s Place ." Harris calls it “the...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Belva Davis and Miranda Wilson explore the historical...
Music is a powerful way to connect people who come from different experiences, but there's a special kind of magic when music amplifies the diversity, heart, and history within one culture. Journalist...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Remembering Grandma's peculiar comfort food
We all remember quirky family recipes, but we don’t always appreciate that home-cooking until we’ve actually left home. Joyce Lin-Conrad sat down with friend and co-worker Geoff Palla to talk about how...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Squatting in the "ghost town" of the Presidio
In 1996, when San Francisco's Presidio was decommissioned as an army base and turned into a national park, a man named Eric Blind came to work there as an AmeriCorps volunteer. Blind recalls at the...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Patricia Chin, from Chinatown to a chorus line
Patricia Chin was born in San Francisco’s Chinatown. She had never left the neighborhood when she auditioned to be a chorus girl. It was quite a leap for a young Asian-American girl, born in 1935, but...
View ArticleStoryCorps: A chef and her daughter bond in the kitchen
Maritza Hurtado Torres has been cooking for as long as she can remember.
View ArticleStoryCorps: One conversation, two stories of life, family and politics
Here at Crosscurrents, one of the first assignments we give the fellows in our Audio Academy is to listen to a 40-minute conversation between two loved ones provided by our partners at StoryCorps —...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Learning from the dying at the Zen Hospice Project
Tracy Grubbs grew up fascinated, curious and also afraid of death. Her curiosity, plus her interest in Buddhism led her to volunteer at the Zen Hospice Project, a San Francisco center for the dying...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Two moms, double the love
Lamar Van Dyke, Paula Lewis and Traci Lewis have a special bond. Lamar gave birth to Traci when she was 18 years old. Unprepared to have a baby, she gave Traci up for adoption. Paula Lewis adopted her....
View ArticleStoryCorps: Santa Rosa crisis counselors reflect on wildfire evacuation
Jessica Stillman and Amanda Abud are counselors at the Verity crisis center in Santa Rosa. The Tubbs wildfire, the most destructive the state has seen, incinerated almost 37,000 acres in Northern...
View ArticleStoryCorps: Keeping family traditions alive
It’s not always easy to pass down family traditions, especially when they don’t match mainstream American culture. But that’s what Maria Sanchez and Roberto Vargas are trying to do. For both, Danza...
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