The Easter bunny has Felica DeRoza’s sympathies; she now knows just how hard it is to make eggs.
She puts a tiny, bubblegum-scented one in each of her Easter baskets.
The handmade items are just two o...
For years, Nicole Dennis-Benn would leave her day job and go home and write in secret.
Her wife insisted she choose between the two.
Ms Dennis-Benn, a Jamaican who was working as a public health rese...
Leona Thompson is 100 today.
Her posture is straight and her mind is razor-sharp; she’s only semi-retired from the job she’s held for 51 years.
She still does her own cooking and cleaning.
“I can scar...
Vidya Cannonier-Watson was barely out of diapers when she fell in love with ballet.
Her mother, Sophia Cannonier, was a professional ballerina and she’d spend hours watching her dance.
“I wanted to be...
About four years ago, Julie Grayston-Smith lost her sense of taste.
She had breast cancer, and the chemotherapy and radiation treatments left their mark.
As she cooked for a living, it made her job ve...
Penny Saltus cannot walk down the street without hearing a child singing out: “Hi, Aunt Penny!”
Children call it from bus windows, in the street, in the grocery store. A hug often follows.
In the pas...
Kennita Perry awoke from brain surgery longing to hold her baby daughter. Two hours later, she had forgotten about eight-month-old Aurora completely.
“The surgery to repair a blocked artery in my brai...
Samuel Lynch has never married — and doesn’t regret it. Being single means he can do exactly what he wants; in his case that means helping others.
“That hasn’t been a disappointment,” the 71-year-old ...
Saskia Wolsak was always fascinated by Bermuda’s plants.
She grew up in Canada, but spent summers here with her maternal Bermudian family.
“My mother was always giving me a taste of fennel or an all...
Spencer Field felt a rush the first time he opened a beehive.
As he peered under the wooden lid, thousands of little worker bees looked up at him.
He remained calm, and so did they.
“They take their ...
