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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 ...

Fit before giving birth, Natalie Flood didn’t understand why her “mummy tummy” wouldn’t go away. The Pilates instructor soon discovered the reason: her stomach muscles had weakened during pregnancy, and separated. “Everyone is born with abdominal se...

Carole Sousa showed up at our meeting with a typed list of talking points. Among the many things that had to be discussed: her current activities, her collection of business cards and the people she felt needed to be profiled in the pages of The Roya...

In 1998 Lana Young felt she had to leave Bermuda if she wanted a full-time acting career. These days she doesn’t think it’s necessary. “Things have changed in terms of the accessibility of screen services and film festivals and YouTube and all of the...