Winnie Oatley’s mother lived to be 96; her brothers are both in their nineties. Still, she was a bit disbelieving when she celebrated her 99th birthday in February.
“I don’t know why, I just never ex...
J.P. Skinner will never forget the wonder of his first scuba dive.
He was 16, and captivated by all the fish.
“I thought, for thousands of years people haven’t been able to do this, and I can,” he sai...
The four-letter expletive he’d spread across canvas appropriately summed up Calix Smith’s frustration with the education system.
He couldn’t believe it when the organisers of a fashion show wouldn’t l...
At 23, Jason Minors was riding his bike when he impulsively hit the throttle.
It’s a decision he will always regret.
Before he knew it, he was flat on a sidewalk, his back broken. Doctors told him he ...
Henrietta Bascombe knocked on James Bean’s door only days after his wife Pamela was buried.
Six years later, they were hitched.
She hadn’t been looking for a husband; the Salvation Army had sent her a...
Children have a way of pushing their dad’s buttons.
Take four-year-old Nyah Bean, for example.
Sometimes she laughs when her father Reuben is trying to tell her something important.
And when he does s...
Arthur, Louis and Malcolm Ming can’t walk down the street without stopping to talk.
They love people.
No surprise then, that not one of them had a typical office job.
Arthur, who is known as Junior, ...
There are artists who like to go with the flow, painting whatever they feel.
Margaret Best is not one of them.
She has always loved drawing, but precisely. Plants are her speciality. Every leaf and ...
When Maxine Esdaille started asking about the Bermuda Native Yacht Club she got only blank looks.
The all-black club started in 1844, and was probably the first of its kind.
“I talked to people from...
Leah Richardson dreamt of taking art classes when she was younger but couldn’t afford them.
So, at 14, she taught herself.
“I was homeschooled and the lessons I wanted were quite expensive,” she said....