Melissa Face

My seven-year-old daughter, Delaney, is the poster child for self-assurance. Her spirit and determination hav…

Paralyzed by the pandemic, then damaged by a 500-year flood, Swift Creek Mill Theatre recently turned the lig…

Women currently comprise only 28 percent of the workforce's science, technology, engineering, and mathematics…

Founded in 1886 as the Chesapeake Dry Dock and Construction Company, Newport News Shipbuilding constructs the…

My son was 18 months old when we visited the Children's Hospital of the King's Daughters in Norfolk for a min…

Last summer, my son Evan and I started our own mother-son book club. I was in search of something contemporar…

My two young children and I were out walking when we noticed an unfamiliar car drive slowly past homes in our…

Imagine having to drill into a fresh egg without cracking it. That is how Kelly Ann Talley, a Neonatal/Pediat…

Marlee Fuller-Morris strolled down an interior trail at False Cape State Park, pausing occasionally to savor …

Holiday Digital Edition 2020

In 1935, Gideon A. Strange, a full-time postal service worker, began growing plants and flowers in his backya…

In the early 90s, Tamyra Whitehead came home from work and asked her mother where the baby was. "Taking a nap…

And as a teacher, I assigned, corrected, and scored work for my students while monitoring my children's virtu…

In the delivery room, my husband held up one of my legs and the nurse held the other, while I pushed and grun…

In the painful days following her divorce, Myra Wight's friend brought over pizza to make sure she and her ki…

Lauren Boothe of Chesterfield is a cellist and a junior at the Appomattox Regional Governor's School for the …

Dr. Olaniyi Lucas fondly recalls the time her son wanted to be a T-Rex when he grew up. "He was crushed when …

"Hey! I remember you!" a freshman at the high school where I teach called out to me earlier this year. "Don't…

When I received a message to call my daughter's guidance counselor as soon as possible, I was sure it had fin…

One day, Kristine Jelstrup's eight-year-old son asked her if she thought the earth was really going to be as …

Back in late December, Erin Fazio of Norfolk was washing her four-month-old daughter's new clothing that Broo…

I was about to take attendance in my second block when my phone rang. The number of my daughter's school flas…

A week after my grandmother passed away, a friend asked if my children were doing okay. "I'm really not sure,…