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Cecille Snaith-Simmons’s grandson left for school and she began mailing him handwritten letters every two weeks. She didn’t realise what she was letting herself in for. When Nasir came home on a break from his studies at United World College, he not...

Stephanie Hill is not ashamed to say a lot of people have slept with her over the years, or at least in her beds. Roman centurions, lords and ladies, musicians — they’ve all been guests at the bed and breakfast she ran in Somerset, England. “Over the...

If you haven’t yet bought a ticket for Annie, do so. Gilbert & Sullivan Society’s production, now on at City Hall, is fantastic, although you should expect a few surprises if you’ve only seen the 1982 film. This one is based on the 1977 Tony Award-wi...

At 1am, while many of us are fast asleep, Toney Edmonds is out on the road running, or riding his bike. Before he goes, he eats a home-made muffin; when he returns, he has oatmeal. “I’m simple like that,” the 48-year-old said. His wife, Victoria, o...

As her guy friends hunted fish with knives and spears, Taylor Barit looked on wondering if she also had what it took to go for the kill. She decided she did. Within a week she had a fishing licence and a 10ft spear. Her first catch, off Shelly Bay S...

Televisions, washing machines, cars, bikes ... Manuel Lopes has at least one of each stored away somewhere. But he does not see his growing piles of items as a problem. “I just like stuff,” he said with a shrug. “Yes, there’s a fine line between hoar...

Bobby Zuill wears bandanas wherever he goes. It’s not because the 72-year-old is living on the memories of his days as one of Bermuda’s “rock stars” and thinks it’s cool — it’s because he’s losing his hair. “I need them to keep the sun off my head,” ...

Camera in hand, Meredith Andrews started on what was for her a first — a television credit. It could be argued that Moveable Feast with Fine Cooking, the show she worked on this summer, would not have been made without her. The Boston film crew was i...

Jessica Meredith popped the olive into her mouth and her mind reeled. Lisbon’s Belcanto wasn’t her first two-star Michelin experience, but it’s one she will always remember. “The olives were injected with martini juice,” she enthused. “I wasn’t expe...

Ronda Lewis thought she had beaten breast cancer. She was devastated when the disease came back, bigger and stronger than before. Almost as bad was having to share the news with her daughter Charmaine. “How do you tell your daughter something like th...