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Balancing work with motherhood isn’t easy. Kim Dismont Robinson was thrilled when she was offered a spot at CaribLit, a fiction-editing workshop in Guyana. She’d been selected from 40 applicants based on her work editing several anthologies published...

Dani Buglione had good grades in school but struggled to express herself outside of class. Then she discovered acting. “It was like this whole different world opened up to me,” the 14-year-old Saltus Grammar School student said. “One of my first part...

Friends thought DeeDee Cooper had the perfect life: a budding acting career and a wonderful boyfriend. In reality, the 20-year-old was a mess, physically and mentally abused by the supposed love of her life. The American author and motivator recently...

In today’s frenetic world, even children sometimes long for peace and quiet. Nathaniel Thomas tried to skip a tennis lesson three weeks ago because he wanted to learn how to meditate. The six-year-old didn’t inform anyone ahead of time; he just wande...

Michael Wynn grew up in poverty on Chicago’s South Side. No one in his family had graduated from college and the odds were stacked against him doing so either: the dropout rate at his high school was nearly 90 per cent; only 15 of the 500 students w...

It’s a fact: the average mom is neither “perky” nor “enthusiastic” 24/7. Bills, housework and other responsibilities sometimes take away the fun — and that’s where people like Jeanne Bean step in. The 52-year-old signed up with Big Brothers Big Siste...

Matthew Oliveira was speeding along at 25mph when he somehow crashed into a closed gate. He suffered severe bruising and minor internal bleeding in the fall, but insisted on getting back on his bike. He was, after all, in the middle of a race for cha...

In certain circles, Irene Richardson is affectionately known as “the craft lady”. For the past three years the long-time eductor and nanny has been hosting craft parties for children at private and corporate events throughout the Island. Her secret...

A head wrap can be a bold form of self-expression, if you know how to do it right. Zarinah El-Amin Naeem plans to show women here how it’s done, at a workshop tomorrow night. The Muslim, who is a native of Detroit, will give a brief history of headw...

Joy Hunt packs a survival kit to get her children through flights with minimal drama. Shannan Swan will not get on a plane with her three-year-old without disinfectant. Travelling with very young children is not for the faint of heart. Read what the ...