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Rudell “RJ” Pitcher has always been passionate about motocross. He was introduced to the sport by his father, Rudell Pitcher, who would take him to Southside where his uncle Jamel Pitcher would race. RJ didn’t start riding until he was four. By the t...

In her early teens, Linda Smith did a lot of goofing off. “All I wanted to do was play,” the 72-year-old remembered. But she still managed to be one of the top three students in her class at Sandys Secondary School. Then the school principal, Dorothy...

As a child, Skye Kermode watched the “mermaids” at work at Bermuda Aquarium, Museum & Zoo and wanted to join in. But when she talked to grown-ups of her aspirations, they all laughed and tried to direct her towards a more realistic career. “It is jus...

Jolene Bean spent almost half a century teaching and loved every minute but in the seven years since she retired, she has sometimes wondered if she should have been an artist instead. The 72-year-old has made jewellery, dolls for her nieces, and “a l...

Accountant Cayla Cross made a vow at her father’s funeral. Her dad, Howard Cross, had been a tennis coach for 15 years; she would follow in his footsteps. Last year the 31-year-old followed through on that promise, leaving the world of numbers to op...

Back when Bermudian Christie Hunter Arscott started looking for her first job there were lots of titles on writing a resume, and crushing job interviews. But once she entered the corporate world the self-help books fell away. “I had suddenly been thr...

The 2007 Chicago Marathon coincided with a heat spell that sent 315 runners to the hospital, and killed at least one. When the deadly race was cancelled halfway through, Bermudian runner Clinton Curtis decided to keep going. He was 57 at the time. “P...

Tina and Mark Nash climbed more than 30,000 feet of the English Lake District’s toughest mountain peaks, but they still need donations to raise enough money for a new pony for Windreach

Kath Davis had never lived abroad by herself until 1979, when her mother dropped her off at college in England. She was 17. Her dormitory mates at Chelsea College of Physical Education got her through her homesickness. “It was great because everyone...

As a child, Dianne Carlson thought she had found paradise. She was living on Agar’s Island in the Great Sound, where her grandfather, James DeSilva, was the caretaker. “We went swimming every day and there were caves to explore,” she said. Television...