I pity anyone within earshot of my voice whenever I see our grandbabies. They elicit pure joy in me. My voice rises to such an annoying pitch that the dog starts barking. Years ago, I read a story about a woman who brought joy to thousands of strangers while working in a large department store…

Meet the family spanning six generations of females—with the great-great-great-grandmother celebrating her 100th birthday. With 98 years between Rose Sharp and her great-great-great-granddaughter Amelia, the family from Kent, England, are thrilled to be able to mark the milestone birthday all together. The 100-year-old mother of eight is the head of a huge family and has…

After being born six weeks prematurely, a baby gorilla was rejected by her mother. However, keepers at Howletts Wild Animal Park in Kent, England, stepped in, hand-rearing the infant, who weighed little more than a kilogram. Then, something miraculous happened—the infant, Yaoundé, was adopted by her own great-grandmother. Yaoundé was born in June 2019. In…

After struggling to compensate for a leaking roof using kitchen pots and pans to catch drips, a Virginia grandmother, raising five children, has had her prayers answered. Carol Johnson was using kitchen improvisations to catch rainwater during poor weather, until Pastor Tyronne Champion, director of Fauquier County nonprofit Community Touch Inc., heard her story. Champion wrote…