Joycelyn Martin just couldn’t believe it when a doctor told her she had ovarian cancer.
She had not felt any pain despite the mass, found in her stomach during a routine checkup two years ago.
The do...
Jackson Spurling still remembers his first violin recital. He was 5, and so small he plucked the instrument with his fingers. “I never used a bow,” he said. “And I was so nervous.”
Now he is 17, but h...
After watching tourist after tourist “deck out” on rental bikes, Michael Paynter started thinking about another option.
The solution came eight years ago on a trip to Brooklyn.
A scheme there allowed ...
Teddy the Lost Dog doesn’t have a busty dame or a fairy godmother; there won’t be people yelling, ‘He’s right behind you!’ — over and over and over again.
In other words, it’s not a pantomime.
The Ber...
Ruby Sampson packed as much as she could into her life, assuming it would not be a long one.
Although her father Leonard Trott had lived to be 92, her mother, Beatrice, had died at 39.
That she is tur...
Debre Evans likes to push herself.
A few months ago she sprained her ankle. Doctors told her to stay off of it for two weeks but within days she was back in classes at In Motion School of Dance.
“I k...
Almuriel Simons-Busby has always had a weakness for chocolate peanut clusters.
Ten years ago, frustrated because she could not always find them in stores, she tried to make her own. “I couldn’t do it...
Nobody gets much sleep on the first night of Camp Hope.
The children giggle, run around in the dark — and complain about bugs.
“The girls inevitably start screaming that there are roaches in their ten...
Luis Samudio believes birthdays should be more about giving than gifts. His 50th was no different.
The Pennsylvania resident brought three suitcases filled with things for charity when he visited on ...
Raymond DeShields never visits St George’s without taking a swing around Ordnance Island.
He likes to check on the Deliverance replica; his baby.
Fifty years ago, he helped to build it for the Bermu...
