In 1886, Frances Folsom married President Grover Cleveland at a White House ceremony. It was the only time a sitting president has been wed while in office.
Growing up in Muhammad Ali's hometown, I saw him in person for the first time when I was 11. For me and millions more, it was his personality that I couldn’t pull my eyes away from.
Muhammad Ali was laid to rest in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, on June 10, 2016. Here are a few faces from the tens of thousands who gathered along the funeral procession route.
You can’t talk about Emma without talking about the music that fuels her life. There is always music playing around her and most of it is heavy and loud.
Ingrid has witnessed volumes of changes in relationships, lifestyles, language, weather and transportation in more than eight decades of an action-packed life in Stockholm.
The details of what Doctor Who actually is may induce chronic eye rolling and repeated under-your-breath utterances of the word “whatever.” Hang in there, we’re all in this together.
As an elite member of the Stockholm media was joined by about twenty of my alleged colleagues while a Scottish bloke name Bruce from Drambuie walked us through some quick and dirty recipes.
Glögg is a popular and cozy heated mixture of spices, seasonings, red wine and vodka. It's a Scandinavian staple during the winter holidays. Let's make some!
Karin grew up in the area of Sweden where those red, wooden horses come from, but she feels like her life didn't really start until she moved to England.
Designer Linnea Måhlén invited me to her housewarming party which became so riotous that her neighbors immediately soured on her presence in the building.
Moa Blomkvist discusses the situation that ensued after she accidentally became trapped in the luggage compartment of a bus that crossed the Malaysian border.
These days, Alicia uses ringtones that came with her phone. "I used to get free ringtones with my old cell phone plan, and I used to have a bunch of ringtones then. Not anymore. Journey, Outkast, Neil Young... You know. All the hits!"
"When you first grow up and move away from home, you start getting to know yourself as a grown-up and what you can do with all of your endless possibilities."
When Miles Harvey was interviewed for K Composite in 1999, he was a senior in a high school located in the same building as the K Composite office. His goal at the time was to always wear ties and suits no matter where he was going.
Julia's presence is at once heartwarming, indignant, endearing, prodding and hysterical. So much of everything she says is in the subtleties, nuances and colors of the way she says it. When transcribed into written words, most of it simply disappears with the sounds.
Mary Regal is on an eternal hunt for the perfect avocado. That hunt is a horrible curse, because you don’t know you have the perfect avocado until you open it, but as soon as you open it you have to eat it. Then the search begins again.
Louis Winner realizes the irony of the fact that his three favorite animals are all basically the same: the wolf, the Siberian Husky and the German Sheperd.
At 1.65 meters tall and a light 52 kilograms, Jessica Leanne Woolard is unflinching in her cynical honesty and is predominantly unconcerned with the opinions..
Lauren Garrison does her laundry every two weeks and loves chocolate. When she was in high school, despite being having a 3.75 grade point average, she was a real discipline case.
Devoted film fan Joe Walker watches a lot of movies. In fact, that's about all he ever does. He pays attention, too, and is a veritable fountain of knowledge about the most trivial details of particular films.
Kate Middleton was a scholarship student at Xavier University in Cincinnati when interviewed in 1999 (in moving vehicle while making the 164-kilometer trip back to..
Robert Franklin Suchan (pronounced SOO-kon) lives and goes to school in Bowling Green, Ohio. He has an interesting way of talking that sounds like someone..
When interviewed in 2000, Mark Tyler Kreft was a 20-year-old Louisville graphic designer who claimed to be a "frickin' kick ass dude," but he didn't want you to think he was a "potty mouth."
Libby is the child of a military father, so her youth was spent moving around a lot, including a stint of elementary school in Bonn, Germany. She still speaks German for fun with her Arkansas-native parents when they get together for lunch in Louisville.
Several of Maiza's past roommates have complained of her using their dishes as containers for mixing paint and not cleaning the ones she uses for food.
Jason Noble is the kind of person whose accomplishments are so vast and varied that their description is as ornery a literary task as could be mustered. He was interviewed for K Composite in 1996.
