People often ask Sherlyn Swan-Caisey how she’s still smiling.
She’s battled three different chronic illnesses, and faced death twice.
The 64-year-old singer said: “My mother, Madge Swan, would say it ...
Retirement just wasn’t for Yvonne Boyd.
She’d spent 35 years running a busy maternity ward at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York.
When she and her husband stopped working and moved to quiet New Bern, N...
When Chiara Pellus Soria met her mother-in-law she was struck by her sense of humour.
She hadn’t known what to expect.
Bonnie Soria had been confined to bed for years because of multiple sclerosis. ...
Joyce Williams’s parents died at 85. She hit the same age and started planning her funeral. Her children, Greta Mkoka and the late Earlston Williams, convinced her to wait it out a bit.
It’s likely th...
You would think it would be hard to get heard in a country of 47 million people.
Joanne Ball Burgess’s song Don’t Disturb My Dance is getting airplay all over Kenya.
“I just got back from launching th...
British astrologer Steve Judd rolled his eyes when he heard there was an alleged 13th zodiac sign.
He couldn’t believe people were buying into Nasa’s claims that Ophiuchus, a previously overlooked st...
Ballet is the one thing Olivia and Tristan Currelly always agree on.
Their hope is to become as successful as Megan and Robbie Fairchild, sibling principals in the New York City Ballet.
“It would be w...
Edonna Bean started thinking about her 40th birthday months before the grand event.
She knew exactly what she didn’t want: a massive party.
A YouTube video of a boy handing his sneakers over to a hom...
Norma Blackman was always strongly independent. She credits her parents, Constance and Gilbert Cox.
“They taught me not to bring my problems home, to sort them out myself,” the 84-year-old said. “I d...
DJs Jibri Lewis and Bakari were 16 the first time they played at a party.
They chose Young Men’s Social Club for their public debut as King Jyrus.
The bar was locked, and soda was the only drink the t...
