I once heard someone say that strength and courage aren’t always measured in medals and victories. They are measured in the struggles we overcome. The strongest people aren’t always the people who win. They are the people who don’t give up when they lose. Courage is infectious. Courage can impact those around you and those  Read more »

   WASHINGTON, DC (JCHayward.com) — Are you ready with all your travel documents? Vivianne Pommier of Pommier Travel Services gives JC Hayward some important tips on making sure your passport and VISA are up-to-date before you hop on the plane. Passports a.  Required anywhere outside of the U.S. including travel to Canada and Mexico for adults and infants. b.  Make sure there is at  Read more »

WASHINGTON (JCHAYWARD.COM) — All of us want to eat healthy during the holidays, but few of us manage to do so. You’ll be happy to learn that you can eat healthy while still enjoying the holiday foods you love. The following are some holiday eating tips you can follow by Proveidence Hospital’s Dr. Marcy Oppenheimer.  Read more »

WASHINGTON (JCHAYWARD.COM) — As many of you know, October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month. We all have been touched by this disease indirectly or directly including JC Hayward, and it’s for this reason that WUSA-TV and JCHAYWARD.COM wants to make a difference in the community by walking towards a cure. WUSA-TV will be walking and  Read more »

WASHINGTON (JCHAYWARD.COM) — As the face of WUSA-TV’s breast cancer awareness program, “Buddy Check 9,” Andrea Roane is celebrating 19 years of being in the forefront of early detection. As a WUSA9 anchor, Roane, is known for her passionate reporting of breast cancer awareness issues and reminding women and men to perform monthly breast self  Read more »

WASHINGTON (JCHAYWARD.COM) — My husband and I had an argument the other night.  We never really have heated words with one another, haven’t in the almost 25 years we’ve been married. This argument was really special and there are a lot of people I want to thank for the opportunity to be part of it.  Read more »

It was the summer of 1998 and I was sitting in my office at the National Conference for Community and Justice. We had just received word that a group of neo-Nazis planned to march downtown. The phone lines were going off the hook. Some of my colleagues in other organizations who also fought for equal rights  Read more »

Cheryl Kravitz, Power of Positive  — In 1984 I was a sweet young thing whose only foray into a planned exercise program was years (and I do mean years) earlier in high school. I remember quite vividly wearing what was fondly called a “gym suit” .. a blue monstrosity that can only be described as a  Read more »

Last weekend my husband celebrated his 64th birthday. We spent the day at the Abbey Road on the River Beatles Tribute festival. It was fitting for all kinds of reasons. Over a year ago he slogged through boxes of used records and tapes at a neighborhood sale and bought me a video of the 1964  Read more »

Coming of age in the 1960s I was aware of the beginnings of the Civil Rights movement. The neighborhood where I grew up was segregated. I would read about stirrings of unrest on campuses across the country and was dismayed when boys in one of my high school classes made the front pages for stoning  Read more »