Sydney Page

Toronto

Staff Writer

Education: McGill University, BA; Columbia University, MS in journalism

Sydney Page is a staff reporter who writes for The Washington Post’s Inspired Life section, a collection of stories about humanity. She has been a contributor to The Post since 2018, and has written for various sections, including Health, Americas, Climate, Gender & Identity and The Lily. Before joining The Post, Sydney was a writer and video producer at CTV National News and an editor at a Canadian news startup called the Bullet.
Latest from Sydney Page

Man ran 700 miles to make ‘insanely impressive’ art on GPS fitness app

It took Duncan McCabe 10 months to make a 27-second digital art video.

December 2, 2024

Postal worker saves man who fell, will spend Thanksgiving with him

“Whatever emergency he was going through, we were going to go through it together,” said Jaylen Lockhart, a USPS employee.

November 27, 2024
Jaylen Lockhart, 26, a U.S. postal worker in Aurora, Illinois, recently rescued a 75-year-old man who fell while walking his dog.

A recording of their 1966 wedding was in a thrift store. A stranger returned it.

“I thought it was going to be a great record. It turned out even better than I thought,” said Katie Ornelas, who found the record at an Austin thrift store.

November 26, 2024
Donna and Phil Schmidt leave their wedding celebration on Aug. 21, 1966.

She wrote a note in a bottle decades ago. It just showed up at her old school.

“I was awestruck by the irony of me being nine, writing the letter, and my daughter being nine,” Makenzie Van Evk said.

November 22, 2024
Makenzie Van Eyk, center, with her fourth-grade teacher, Roland St. Pierre, and her two children, Scarlet, 9, and Huxley, 6, on the pier where Van Eyk tossed a message in a bottle in the lake as part of a school assignment in 1998. Nearly three decades later, a kindergarten student at the same school Van Eyk attended found it.

They married at 98 and 96: ‘Who doesn’t love a great love story?’

“We really did fall in love. I didn’t know it could happen again,” said Jo Cartwright, 96.

November 16, 2024
Jo Cartwright, 96, and Bernard Snyder, 98, relaxing together. The couple live in the same retirement community in Austin and got married on Nov. 1.

Bakery owner discovers longtime customer is her biological son

Lenore Lindsey said her longtime customer’s laugh had always reminded her of her brother’s. Now she knows why.

November 13, 2024
Lenore Lindsey with her son, Vamarr Hunter.

Two dogs, inseparable at a shelter, were just adopted together

The dogs, one deaf and the other skittish, were the shelter’s longest residents.

November 9, 2024
Boone, left, and Rellie in their new home. The two dogs became best friends while staying at the Greenville Humane Society, and they were adopted together on Oct. 16.

Stressed? ‘Sesame Street therapy has begun’

“I’m hanging on BY A THREAD ELMO,” wrote one of Elmo’s followers.

November 5, 2024
Elmo, the beloved character from "Sesame Street," is offering emotional support through social media — as are some of his friends.

Trash collector alters weekly route to see his biggest fan: A 3-year-old

“When I saw John, I thought, why not be a positive role model to this kid as he’s growing up?” said Craig Hodges, a garbage truck driver.

November 2, 2024
John Coleman with garbage truck driver Craig Hodges. About 10 months ago, John brought Hodges an apple, and they became friends.

School names building after longtime custodian: ‘It was a shock’

Claudene Wilson started as a custodian at Missouri’s Swedeborg District III Elementary School in 1994.

October 30, 2024
Claudene Wilson, a longtime custodian at Swedeborg District III Elementary School in Swedeborg, Missouri.