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Mikaela Kawaley-Lathan planned to go straight to university after high school. Then she saw her brother Zachary perform with inspirational tour group Up With People. “I was awestruck,” she said “I didn’t want to stay in my seat. I wanted to get up t...

Popping open a frozen pizza is so much easier than preparing a healthy meal. Many people want to improve their diet but don’t have the time to learn healthy cooking. Meaghan McKenzie may have the answer. The 37-year-old is starting a holistic cater...

It’s not what you know, it’s who you know — or so the saying goes. Malachi Simmons didn’t know anyone in Manchester, England He had only just moved there to start his dance career and his classes at Studio 25 were often half-empty. “The other profes...

Geoff Parker spent most of his early childhood in bed, sick. He had asthma, triggered by dampness in his home near Devonshire marsh. He started writing to cope with the boredom. “I wrote my own little books starting at age 7,” he said. “When you’re...

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 is not what you go through but how you go through ...

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, North Carolina she was bored out of her mind. “I wa...

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. The Connecticut resident spent most days watching ...

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 the song in Mombasa,” said the Bermudian who moved t...

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 homeless man gave her the inspiration she needed. “I...

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 teenagers could offer. To their surprise, they “fil...