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Is it bad what happens to us, just bad? Two weeks ago, Bill and I attended the Bermuda International Film Festival. It is an important cultural event here, one which highlights the best in world cinema and allows us to watch rare documentary, short a...

For the last year of your working life you counted the days until you would be free like a kid looking forward to Christmas. You calculated your retirement income, filled out all the paperwork, and tried to look suitably demure at the farewell drink...

It was five o’clock in the morning. I was alone. I awoke and put on my rough, white linen robe. I walked out onto the wooden planks of my small hut. Thick morning fog ebbed through the mountains in a dream of languid mist. I heard the joyful songs o...

Even demons become kinder if they are fed on time and treated well. I learnt this last week, when we attended a service at a small Hindu temple in the remote mountains of western Bali. My husband, Bill, and I went for a bike ride. We rode in the equ...

New Year’s Eve for Russian people is the most important holiday of the year. The table in each household is crammed with food, drinks and treats. Russian women start preparing for this celebration weeks in advance. We think about what delicious dish...

What a special and wonderful time of the year, filled with both magic and kindness. I love the smell of nutmeg, cinnamon and pine needles, the sparkle of decorations and flickering lights, and the love, care and warmth of the family hearth. This is ...

What can we do when something happens in our lives that causes us to be very afraid? Certain events can completely change our status quo or even turn our lives upside down. A divorce or separation from your loved one, an upcoming operation, the tho...

Have you ever started something important, something you look forward to and anticipate? You see it clearly in your mind’s eye, when suddenly everything changes in an instant and all your plans turn upside down. And in the end, to your surprise, you ...

How do I know what true love is? This morning we received the results of my annual scan from the doctor. My husband jumped out on to the sunny porch of our summer home in Minnesota, high above a calm and beautiful lake, spread his arms wide to the sk...

Yellow bundles of bananas, tight blue plums, bunches of transparent green grapes, deep red apples, soft and curvy pears, succulent yellow mangoes … I glanced over the rows of neatly laid fruits brought from afar to Bermuda. “Everything as usual, noth...

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 Channel twice. Now she was determined to become the ...

“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 from a famous Russian song. I listen to them in my h...