During 70 years of marriage, Jack Potter kept a diary. He had always taken notes about his days, but when he met Phyllis Clayson at a wartime dance in 1941, he had even more to write about. He fell head…
Jackson Street in Twin Falls, Idaho, was not the model for Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood. A couple of families were bringing up wild children who seemed headed for a life of petty crime. Some of the adults were knocking each other…
In a country where gays and lesbians are forced into exile, where they live in fear of discovery, the courage of Kasha Jacqueline Nabagesera is extraordinary. The young LGBTI-rights activist continues to campaign for an end to homophobia in Uganda,…
Born with no adipose tissue, Lizzie Velasquez is a 60-pound, 23-year-old woman on a mission to share her story. She wants to teach people to look beyond the exterior, their own and others’, to help them acknowledge and embrace their…
Take 20 minutes to watch Amy Cuddy’s TED talk, “Your body language shapes who you are”, and you just might have one of the best and easiest success tools available. The premise is simple. When we feel powerful, we open…
He has breakfast at 2 a.m. because Johnny Barnes, aka Mr. Happy Man, has work to do. From 4 to 10 a.m., he greets commuters as they drive by on their way to work. For years he worked as an…
The sign made me laugh. At 70 and 66 Robin and I still see ourselves as active and engaged, but we are definitely slow by comparison with our newest granddaughter and her mothers. The grandparents sign is at Davison Orchards…
Rewarding people for exemplary work often entails bestowing some sort of engraved plaque or a chunk of glass inscribed with the details. The recognition is a lasting pat on the back. I hadn’t thought much about the companies who create…
The year Cougar Annie’s Garden was published, I was helping my then-husband read non-fiction books being considered for a prize. He asked me to read those with a female focus. Ranking them in order was difficult, as they were all…
In what must surely be one of the quirkiest stories of the 2012 Olympics, a Chinese farmer says he pedaled his rickshaw through 16 countries, to be in London for the start of the games. Nothing stopped Chen Guanming, who…
