Brynn Coseru, a mother of two young children who’s been a synchronized swimmer in Cirque’s aquatic classic “O” for 11 years, is in training at Touro University for what she’s going to do when her body can no longer take the wear and tear — she’s going to be an occupational therapist.
Given that my last close friend recently passed and I have dealt with some health issues of my own, I truly want there to be an afterlife. It is an incredibly romantic idea, after all. And I’m a hopeless romantic.
On a glorious April 2015 day, Candace Kawatsu went hiking. A fall has changed her life forever. No longer able to teach because of short term memory and stress issues, she is looking for another way to make the world a better place.
You have to be a different breed of human being to allow a pit bull around a child or let the dog wander the neighborhood without a leash.
That 11-year-old Zareh Shamirza is alive on this Mother’s Day doesn’t seem incredible when you meet him. It’s only when you’re told the boy named after an Armenian king was born 24 weeks early at 1 pound, 11 ounces that you realize this child wouldn’t have had a chance at life for most of the 20th century. The technology wasn’t there to make it possible.
Two weeks ago Derek Bernath, who has obvious cognitive deficits, was playing a game of Marco Polo in a condominium pool with people he thought were his friends. As it turned out, they stole his phone.
At age 15, Oscar Ho sounds much older than his years. He says his parents help motivate him but some students don’t get that at home. “I try to show students what they can do when they apply themselves. When they get excited and do well, it’s a great feeling.”
UMC’s senior leadership team says that if the levels of uninsured go back to what they were a few years years — 35 percent of patients didn’t have insurance — taxpayer money would again be needed to bail out the public hospital.
With the modern workplace favoring technically savvy employees, more and more students are flocking to career and technical education.
Al Lunceford, 74, wants people to largely hold themselves accountable for their success or failure. Too often, he says, people lack the desire or dedication or discipline to succeed.
