While out canvassing recently, a Bermudian couple asked us to come in and have a conversation with them about the hikes in the land tax proposed by finance minister Bob Richards the week before Christ...
Two men, Tyrone and Bob, are in a lifeboat. Bob suddenly shouts out: “Land! Land! I see land.” Tyrone says: “Where? Where? Where is this land? “Over there to the West. Let’s start paddling,” screams B...
Over the course of canvassing, we have found ourselves sitting or standing in many kitchens throughout Constituency 13. Often we are offered food or refreshments, which hearkens back to the days of ho...
Matthew 13:3-8
“A farmer went out to sow his seed. As he was scattering the seed, some fell along the path, and the birds came and ate it up. Some fell on rocky places, where it did not have much soil...
“There is no place like home.”
— Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz
Forrest Gump once said: “Life is like a box of chocolates ...” A possible interpretation is that one has an opportunity to make choices a...
With her doors spread wide open, she welcomed her guests. One by one they came. Two by two they came. Each of them embracing and speaking to others who had walked through those eastern facing doors.
O...
“For whom the bell tolls
Time marches on
For whom the bell tolls”
— Metallica
By Chris Famous
There is a bell in Devonshire that has been tolling for multiple generations. Anyone living in Devonshire...
A canvassing we will go
A canvassing we will go
Hi Ho the merry o
A canvassing we will go.
During the course of the past month, we have spent countless hours and days out on the canvassing trail, k...
Hmm, Christmas time again. Let us go through our annual checklist to see what we need to tick off once again.
Clean chimney? Many of us no longer have chimneys. So scratch that.
Mail a wish list to Sa...
Gombeys, egg nog and family — all part of the Bermudian Christmas tradition.
For this special holiday edition, we will look at the way Christmas is celebrated in various Caribbean territories. I have...
