Stories at the Grocery Store with Grama A Living Inquiry Project

Abstract

As the oldest grandchild living in Vancouver, I have had the opportunity to cultivate a unique and close relationship with my grandmother. Our relationship has been built on many moments together, but a place we often find ourselves is the grocery store. She cannot drive, or see well, so we take our trips and I help her shop. I am her transportation and her eyes. But what does this mean for us? What stories do these encounters create? What are we weaving together as she and I venture into the grocery store?

Through a hermeneutic phenomenological orientation,

this living inquiry sets out with the intention of discovering,

‘How are stories lived at the grocery store with Grama?’