My dear friend David, a prolific writer, wrote a funny poem recently about half lives that made me rethink my own thoughts about birthdays. About how when we’re kids, we’re always rounding up to seem ...

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Shortly after he was found, Julian's boyfriend Aaron Hayes, 18, requested a poem as part of an obituary and Julian's mum Beverley Griffiths, 59, immediately obliged. In just 25 minutes, Beverley ...

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Once upon a simple time, we cleansed, toned and moisturised. Today there is a new step to add to that skin-enhancing list: anti-ageing serums. Specialist, potent treatments that aim to repair ...

I Am Maria: My Poems and Reflections on Heartbreak, Healing, and Hope' will hit bookshelves on April 1, 2025 Bailey Richards is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since ...

A mum wrote an hilarious poem in memory of her son's hamster. Julian Junior, 20, lost Bonnet, his pet of two-and-a-half years ...

It's not so long ago that Hollywood would rely on makeup to alter the ages of stars – typically to age up younger actors to look like much older people. And there’s a long tradition of using ...