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A toddler scoops a cookie off the floor and shoves it in his mouth, lint, dog hair, ants and all. It’s a familiar scene that makes some parents cringe and others shrug philosophically. “No one has died yet,” said Susan Thomas, 40, mother of eight-ye...

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 difficult as her relationship with her mother hadn’t alw...

Charles Jeffers dreams were shattered when his high school scholarship was withdrawn.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 was struggling to provide for him and his three si...

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 wanted: the bee was hanging mid-air, with just a ...

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 cooks”. Mrs Umer’s mom was the cook in their house in ...

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, Alabama a year later, Nasya was dancing competiti...

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 summer. She put groceries that belonged in the fridge...

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 standing on my father’s feet at someone’s wedding. “I...

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 takes a lot of patience,” said Ms Smith, owner of...

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 definitely did not want to take after my father,” t...