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Meredith Andrews has a lot of Annas to thank. She couldn’t have completed her book, Who is Anna Andersson? without them. The 50 women were chosen because they share the Scandinavian country’s most common name. The Bermudian photographer started the b...

Friendly residents, beautiful beaches and great vegan food got Bermuda a thumbs-up from Canadian bloggers. Justin Ceksters and Lauren Yakiwchuk have travelled all over North America and the Caribbean, detailing their experiences on their food blog, j...

A few years ago, Melodye Micere Van Putten would never have imagined having a film made about her life. Her Ashay Rites of Passage curriculum had been cancelled — just five years after she began empowering Dellwood students with black history. She wa...

I’m going to die, just like my mother did. That’s what Ronda Lewis thought the moment she heard she had breast cancer. “I immediately had a throwback moment, because I was just 38 years old,” said Ms Lewis. “My mother, Lynette Trott, died from breast...

Life is literally a beach for Tony Plant. He spends his days creating art on sands around the world. The downside, of course, is watching his painstakingly crafted pieces disappear with the tide. Mr Plant, who lives in Newquay, Cornwall, finds beac...

It was a dark and stormy night when Carol Birch rushed home to catch her favourite BBC radio play. She was just settling into bed with a warm cup of tea to listen, when the electricity went off. She ended up listening to it in her car, at midnight,...

Manish Thareja was ten years old when his father died of a heart attack. He was raised by a handful of women — his mother and his two sisters. “It left a huge hole in my life,” said the 36-year-old from New Delhi, India. “I always wished I had a fath...

Gary Paterson once desperately prayed for God to cure his homosexuality. The Moderator of the United Church of Canada even married a woman. They were together for ten years and had three children before they divorced in 1982. “I always knew I was dif...

One day Brenda Carbonette decided she was sick and tired of waiting for tardy repairmen. She was 45 years old. A self-confessed girlie-girl who once won a beauty pageant back in her native Canada, and had a passion for diamonds. “I thought I could l...

A few cherished photos are all that remain of Dany Pen’s family history in Cambodia. One of them was snapped the day her mother, Yean Chham, arrived at a Thailand refugee camp in 1979. She escaped there after fleeing from the Khmer Rouge. The picture...