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Alice Bean is a bit shy and never liked surprises much. But some are better than others. Last month she was blown away when her granddaughter, Michela Outerbridge, surprised her with a lunch at Bella Vista Bar and Grill in Southampton. Many of her s...

Chineza Augustus loved watching her mother sew. She would try to follow along, repurposing old pairs of jeans as her mom made clothes for the family. Fashion design had piqued Rosina Santucci’s interest but she had become a hairdresser instead. “Now ...

After a week in rural Honduras, Sophie Froud has a new appreciation for indoor plumbing. Outhouses were the norm in the remote villages she visited, and there was no running water. “When I got to Miami on my way back to Bermuda on Sunday it was a rea...

Mary Smith was 8 when she had her first drink. It was an accident. She took the miniature bottle from her grandfather’s bar, thinking it was soda. “It was a pretty green bottle,” she said. “Once I got that warm, fuzzy feeling, I knew it was alcohol.”...

Out of the blue Jeff Payne’s wife, Jo, issued him a challenge. “Write me a story,” she said. Mr Payne hadn’t written anything creative since high school, but he gladly took up the gauntlet. “Right away I knew exactly the type of person I wanted to wr...

It’s not easy eavesdropping on a dolphin. Marine mammal biologist Frants Jensen spent all Wednesday searching for dolphin chitchat. The ocean was rough, there was a torrential downpour and no sign of dolphins. “We probably travelled 90 miles,” said t...

When Nicky Gurret first took on the annual Sand Sculpture Competition she thought she’d do it for a year and then hand it over to someone new. It was a new concept at the time, the brainchild of the Institute of Bermuda Architects. Twenty-one years ...

Joanna Jackson-Smith never expected her home-made granola to be an instant sell out. When Lindos first stocked her Oatbelievable Premium Granola, she thought it would take weeks to go. She was amazed when she got a call a few days later. “Lindos sai...

When Sarai Hines started teaching in England, the system bewildered her. From grading to student classification, everything was different. Then the 22-year-old realised she had an advantage ­— her own island culture. “We all forget what we have to b...

When Cha’von Clarke-Joell moved to England she thought her Bermuda passport qualified her for employment. It should have, but a government official at the nearest Jobcentre office saw things differently. After a year struggling to get the national i...