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At 6, Mackenzie Paul was trying to imitate Van Gogh. By the time she was in her teens, her workload at Somersfield Academy was so “intense” her art had to take a back seat. She was thrilled when her parents, Ann and Bryan Paul, agreed to enrol her at...

Five years ago, Richard Burchall stuck a beef frankfurter inside some Johnny bread. Co-workers at Black Horse Tavern, the St David’s restaurant he then worked at, convinced the head chef he was on to a hit. “I love experimenting,” he said. “I though...

Cancer “knocked the hell” out of Jon Beard’s life. It took his wife, Jennie, in 2009 and then his father, Ray. In 2014, Mr Beard found out he had prostate cancer, the disease that had killed his father the year before. “It was disconcerting to develo...

The Easter bunny has Felica DeRoza’s sympathies; she now knows just how hard it is to make eggs. She puts a tiny, bubblegum-scented one in each of her Easter baskets. The handmade items are just two of the many she makes from soap and sells through t...

For years, Nicole Dennis-Benn would leave her day job and go home and write in secret. Her wife insisted she choose between the two. Ms Dennis-Benn, a Jamaican who was working as a public health researcher in New York, is glad she listened. Her nove...

Leona Thompson is 100 today. Her posture is straight and her mind is razor-sharp; she’s only semi-retired from the job she’s held for 51 years. She still does her own cooking and cleaning. “I can scarcely believe I’m 100, myself,” she said. “I don’t ...

Vidya Cannonier-Watson was barely out of diapers when she fell in love with ballet. Her mother, Sophia Cannonier, was a professional ballerina and she’d spend hours watching her dance. “I wanted to be just like her and do what she did,” said the nine...

About four years ago, Julie Grayston-Smith lost her sense of taste. She had breast cancer, and the chemotherapy and radiation treatments left their mark. As she cooked for a living, it made her job very difficult. “You get this metallic taste in your...

Penny Saltus cannot walk down the street without hearing a child singing out: “Hi, Aunt Penny!” Children call it from bus windows, in the street, in the grocery store. A hug often follows. In the past 33 years, Ms Saltus has worked with hundreds of ...

Kennita Perry awoke from brain surgery longing to hold her baby daughter. Two hours later, she had forgotten about eight-month-old Aurora completely. “The surgery to repair a blocked artery in my brain went really well but the blood flow in my brain ...