It was a year since her mother died and Bernice Zaft-Gibbons wasn’t over it.
Waves of grief and anger would suddenly hit her, particularly around birthdays and anniversaries.
It was especially diffic...
Charles Jeffers dreams were shattered when his high school scholarship was withdrawn.
He was 16 and earning only passing grades at Berkeley Institute. He wanted to become a lawyer.
His widowed mother ...
Every time CaVon Raynor tried to take a photograph, the bee slipped away.
The buzzing insect was the hardest thing the 15-year-old had ever attempted to capture. He kept at it.
He finally got what he...
Faryal Umer could barely boil an egg when she got married.
Her husband Umer Islam was shocked. After all, they’d known each other for ten years and they were both from Pakistan, where “every girl cook...
The first time Nasya Joell danced on stage he was nine.
He was so nervous he kept dropping his prop but the experience got him hooked on performing.
By the time his family left Bermuda for Huntsville,...
Nurse Rebecca Ronaldson thought there was nothing more exhausting than an Emergency Room late shift. Then she had a baby.
As a sleep-deprived mother, she put on winter woollies forgetting it was summ...
When Shirley Brangman whispers “hold me tight” to her dance partner, she means it.
She’s 92, sometimes her knees buckle.
“I’ve been dancing for most of my life,” she said. “I first learnt to dance sta...
Sometimes film-maker Lara Smith has to lie in the dirt under blazing sun to get the perfect shot. There is also heavy equipment to lug and long hours of editing at the end of the day.
“It’s a job that...
Shawn Ming never wanted to become a cook.
He rebelled against the prospect from an early age, despite urgings from his father Fred, a popular chef who taught culinary arts at the Bermuda College.
“I d...
As a teenager in the 1970s, Stephen DeCosta thought there was nothing cooler than cruising on his moped.
Some might say he never grew up.
The 51-year-old is still passionate about mopeds and has been ...
