On July 4, 1952, renowned swimmer Florence Chadwick entered the grey and forbidding waters of the North Pacific off the island of Catalina.
Florence was already the first woman to swim the English Ch...
Have you ever experienced love at first sight where suddenly, like a thunderbolt, it strikes you?
The whole world disappears for a moment. Your heart freezes and then begins to knock fast and loud. Yo...
I love clouds! And most of all, I love Bermuda summer clouds! I spend each evening watching the tall and stately procession of formations. They glide above the calm waters of the Great Sound like an a...
“Our hearts require the changes,
Our eyes require the changes,
Into our laugh and our tears,
And into pulse of veins
Changes!
We are waiting for changes.”
I always remember these passionate words fr...
In the ancient and charming city of Riga, the capital of Latvia, is a lively and positive old woman by the name of Claudia. We met on the internet, and over time became friends.
We exchange messages a...
The old man tells his grandson that in the soul of each person there are two wolves, between which there is a constant war.
One of them embodies fury, envy, arrogance, anger, fear and shame, and the ...
This year was the first time I participated in Relay for Life in Bermuda.
I walked the Survivors’ Lap that opens this immensely popular fundraising event. We survivors, caregivers and people who are ...
When I think of beautiful childhood dreams I imagine them as stars inside us that warm our souls and prevent us from falling into the routine of everyday life.
They can be so close that we could reach...
Nina London
May is a time of awakening and flowering. I close my eyes and move in my thoughts to my home town of Irkutsk on the far eastern edge of Siberia. I clearly remember how the lilacs were begi...
As I grow older, the more I believe that some people appear in my life not merely by chance; they carry for me some very important message that I need to recognise and understand.
When I travel to Mi...
