
Enjoying Life’s Little Miracles
96-year-old Mary Anne Cooper is a masters swimmer who inspires others to look for life’s little miracles and embrace aging with a positive attitude.
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96-year-old Mary Anne Cooper is a masters swimmer who inspires others to look for life’s little miracles and embrace aging with a positive attitude.

One class at a time; one day at a time. Kay Mullally is not a typical student, but she does represent an entire generation of women who were told that college was not in the cards. After raising a family, Kay decided to take a step into the future.

By age 20, Hank Brunjes had taken Broadway by storm and was sharing the stage with some of the biggest stars in the world. But what happens when you age out of Broadway? You find a new way to keep dancing!

Rod Price was a successful businessman, but he wasn’t happy. Then he discovered his passion in the grueling endurance sport of Adventure Canoeing.

For more than 30 years, John Zickefoose hid a secret from his teachers, his family, his wife and his children. Then one day, his 7-year-old son forced him to come clean — John couldn’t read or write. Find out how he changed his life.

John Suscovich is leaving behind his job with Howard Stern to spend the next two years cycling around the world with his wife, visiting craft breweries and organic farms. He says he’s simply spreading retirement out over his entire life.

It’s never too late to live an active and vibrant life. Just ask Phyllis Sues. She dances the tango, composes and performs tango and jazz music, does trapeze and starts each morning with yoga. And she’s 88 years old.

Siphiwe Baleka is a one-of-a-kind Yale graduating, globetrotting, God-fearing, truck-driving, fast-swimming family man. And he’s got a new mission — to help long-haul truckers everywhere improve their health, fitness and quality of life.

Even very bad days in life can be very good days in terms of learning about ourselves and our personal growth. That’s one of the four purposes of life thought leaders Dan Millman wants you to learn to become the person you’re meant to be.

At 69, Morgan Shepherd is the oldest driver on the NASCAR circuit. But it’s speed off the track that’s really getting people’s attention. Find out how he ran down a teenage thief and wrestled him to the ground for police.

For many women, being a mother and having a rewarding career can feel like an either/or choice. Mom, artist and filmmaker Pamela Tanner Boll reveals what she’s learned about navigating the crazy territory between being a good mother and good to yourself.

What would you do if you were told you had three years to live? When Tina Stull received that terrifying diagnosis in 2002, she got busy living. Find out how she beat cancer and launched a new career on the racetrack.