On the days when Hazel Cox dredges up the strength to hop into her car and spend a few hours tooling around her old neighborhood, Belmont Heights, someone is in for a good day. “I love to make people happy, so if I see a young lady I’ll stop and ask, Do you want to look pretty today?” Hazel relates. […]
As she and her husband wrapped up dinner at their hotel four blocks from the Piazza del Duomo in Pisa, Italy, three summers ago, Daria* decided that she wanted to take one last look at the famous leaning tower before calling it a night. What the couple saw in that moment will live in their minds forever. “It was a […]
Three years after the ball bearing factories of Schweinfurt, Germany, were destroyed in what was dubbed the “Black Thursday” attack by allied air forces during World War II, the town became the site of an expansive US military community. The American presence thrived for 69 years, and at its peak it was the home to 11,000 people, including Julia Vandall. […]
The vast majority of Patricia Chism’s work days are spent sitting behind a desk, so when the day ends or the weekend comes, this 59-year-old billing specialist does her best to get outside and work in her garden. “That’s my go-to,” Patricia says. “Gardening helps relieve a lot of stress for me, so I do my best to get out […]
For at least the past six years, Brittany Dearolf and her husband have made a point of spending the week around their wedding anniversary away from their three children and the hustle and bustle of their busy lives. Their most recent getaway, part of their 10th anniversary, took them to Grenada. It wasn’t their first trip to the Caribbean island. […]
Between 1975 and 2016, the prevalence of obesity across the world tripled. But nowhere did its prevalence expand more than in the United States, where the Centers for Disease Control and Preventions estimates that 41.9 percent of all people are now obese. Obesity is a disease that can lead to other health conditions such as heart disease, stroke, Type 2 […]
Learn how Dr. Delicia M. Haynes guided Jean Civil through an anti-inflammatory diet, medication, and cutting-edge body-contouring treatments to achieve his weight loss goals
So many people spent so much time at home during the COVID-19 pandemic that residential remodeling skyrocketed by more than 3 percent and became a $420 billion industry as the number of infections waned. That contractor craze slowed a bit over the past year, but in some areas of Florida, it’s still raging. For Jean Civil, that’s a good […]
Phillip Matador considers himself an “average guy.” He’s 42 years old, married with two children and has a mortgage. He works as an accountant. It’s a job he believes he was destined to do. “I’ve always loved numbers and math, and accounting was something I’ve always been interested in,” the Palm Beach native shares. “My dad’s an accountant, so […]
At age 60, John Hamlin doesn’t roll out of bed each morning. He springs out in anticipation of what’s ahead in his workday. And why not? When you direct one of the nation’s most successful marketing firms, work tends to be fun.“I’ve run this company since I started it way back in 1988 in Central Illinois,” John says of Hamlin […]
The last time Asia Bell checked, the taekwondo medals she won in the AAU Junior Olympics were still in the box her mother packed before she moved to her new home in Virginia. Like her athletic career in general, Asia left the medals and a sizeable assortment of trophies and ribbons behind when she went off to college, and since […]
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