Taylor Alison Swift is an American singer-songwriter. She is known for narrative songs about her personal life, which have received widespread media coverage. At age 14, Swift became the youngest artist signed by the Sony/ATV Music publishing house and, at 15, she signed her first record deal.
Her 2006 eponymous debut album was the longest-charting album of the 2000s in the US. Its third single, "Our Song", made her the youngest person to single-handedly write and perform a number-one song on the Billboard Hot Country Songs chart. Swift's second album, Fearless, was released in 2008.
Buoyed by the pop crossover success of the singles "Love Story" and "You Belong with Me", it became the US' best-selling album of 2009 and was certified diamond in the US. The album won four Grammy Awards, and Swift became the youngest Album of the Year winner.
Writer’s ‘masterful’ obituary for her mom makes readers ‘laugh through tears’
nypost.com“masterfully” making them laugh and cry at the same time. New York Times writer Caity Weaver, 33, composed the moving piece following the death of her beloved mom, Dr.
Maureen Brennan-Weaver, on June 14 at the age of 65. Weaver’s obituary was published in Pennsylvania’s Patriot News before it was shared by the journalist on Twitter, where it racked up more than 30,000 likes and hundreds of heartwarming responses. “Dr.
Maureen Brennan-Weaver died at home in Harrisburg on June 14th, shocking all who loved her by being ahead of schedule for the first time in her life,” the humorous opening line of the piece read.
The obituary painted a vivid picture of Brennan-Weaver, who studied at Bryn Mawr and practiced as a podiatrist. “She chose podiatry to have holidays off, but usually forgot to schedule them,” Weaver whimsically wrote of her mom. “[She] was treasured by patients who showered her with homemade treats she occasionally accepted as pay.”The loving daughter continued: “She could not stop herself from buying shoes for patients if she spotted just what they needed while shopping.
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