Real Life Stories

Their relationship has had its ups and downs, but Helene Hadfield reveals that back here on earth all systems are go!

She was shot in the head and survived. Now Malala Yousafzai is fighting back... with words.

What it feels like: Imagine the horror of waking in the night surrounded by flames — then add the improbable odds of losing what’s left of your worldly goods in Calgary’s devastating flood.

When Rita Natalaga first got her period, her aunt told her she was going to have to stay home from school until it was over. Like Rita, millions of girls in rural Africa have nothing but leaves and scraps of cloth to get them through their periods.

When Gwen Dundonald’s husband shed weight, he also shed her. He couldn’t understand how she could ever have loved the fat man he once was.