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‘I’ve Got the Joy’ is one of Constance “Ma Pinky” Mello’s favourite hymns. “I’ve got the love of Jesus down in my heart, down in my heart, down in my heart...” The 88-year-old has been spreading the joy for the past fifty years, ministering door-to-...

In the Big Apple, brief encounters can lead to big things. While out clubbing, Zachary Marshall bumped into an old art school friend and flashed some photos of his latest work. Months later, the phone rang. The friend wanted him to show his work a...

X-rated baked goods? Nothing is too risqué for Stephanie Smith. She’s a favoured baker when it comes to bridal showers and bachelor parties. The 48-year-old puts her imagination to work and allows her baking skills to do the rest. “It is that wow f...

A toddler scoops a cookie off the floor and shoves it in his mouth, lint, dog hair, ants and all. It’s a familiar scene that makes some parents cringe and others shrug philosophically. “No one has died yet,” said Susan Thomas, 40, mother of eight-ye...

It was a year since her mother died and Bernice Zaft-Gibbons wasn’t over it. Waves of grief and anger would suddenly hit her, particularly around birthdays and anniversaries. It was especially difficult as her relationship with her mother hadn’t alw...

Charles Jeffers dreams were shattered when his high school scholarship was withdrawn. He was 16 and earning only passing grades at Berkeley Institute. He wanted to become a lawyer. His widowed mother was struggling to provide for him and his three si...

Every time CaVon Raynor tried to take a photograph, the bee slipped away. The buzzing insect was the hardest thing the 15-year-old had ever attempted to capture. He kept at it. He finally got what he wanted: the bee was hanging mid-air, with just a ...

Faryal Umer could barely boil an egg when she got married. Her husband Umer Islam was shocked. After all, they’d known each other for ten years and they were both from Pakistan, where “every girl cooks”. Mrs Umer’s mom was the cook in their house in ...

The first time Nasya Joell danced on stage he was nine. He was so nervous he kept dropping his prop but the experience got him hooked on performing. By the time his family left Bermuda for Huntsville, Alabama a year later, Nasya was dancing competiti...

Nurse Rebecca Ronaldson thought there was nothing more exhausting than an Emergency Room late shift. Then she had a baby. As a sleep-deprived mother, she put on winter woollies forgetting it was summer. She put groceries that belonged in the fridge...