Log In

Nina London wanted to write a book about her life but put it off for years. Looking back, she realises she just wasn’t ready. “We always think there will be another day or time that we can accomplish our dream,” said Ms London, whose column, Life Beg...

In his younger years, Bernard Brangman played everything from football to billiards. He was competitive at every turn, most likely because he came from a family that took sports seriously. His brother, George, was “one of Bermuda’s best footballers”...

You name it and Horst Augustinovic collects it — walking sticks, books, stationery from hotels long gone. “This is what you do when you don’t have children,” the 80-year-old joked. But by far, his favourite is his collection of postcards, stamps, e...

Sharon Alikhani didn’t understand the point of marathons. To her mind, 26.2 miles was a “silly distance” that was hard on the body and could only end with lots of aches. And then a good friend, Ayelet Shrem, came calling. She had signed up for the AA...

Gillian Outerbridge was out walking her dog when she spotted a decaying palm. Many people would have just seen a tree with too many dead limbs; she saw potential. The 78-year-old went back, took a photograph and submitted it to the Charman Prize, a ...

Stephanie Hill calls Bermuda her “spiritual home”, which made it an obvious place to celebrate her book. She’s to sign copies of Come Sleep With Me: An Adventure in Bed and Breakfast Land and Beyond at Brown & Co this weekend. It coincides with the b...

For 79 years Elizabeth Gumbs has been a fixture on the organ at First Church of God, Angle Street. In her early days, shortly after the Second World War started, she had to remember to pump the instrument with her foot so that the music could be hear...

Having never been in a relationship herself, the obvious question was how Marilyn Steede was able to write a romance novel. She started working on When Your Body Gets Weak in 1998, and published it in July. “The love story comes from nothing in my ...

Eighteen years ago, Ernest DeCouto got on a bike, pedalled for about a mile and then gave up, exhausted. His wife, Susan, still laughs at the memory of him falling off while trying to turn the cycle around on Paget’s Bostock Hill. Her husband, howeve...

At 68, Lise Fox learnt she had diabetes. On the A1C test, where the glucose levels of a healthy person would be recorded as 5.7 per cent or lower, she reached 9 per cent. Despite that, she refused the medication doctors offered. Instead, she started ...