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Ask Miriam Callabras how she spends her time, and you’re likely to get a lively response. The 71-year-old keeps busy knitting prosthetics, or as she describes them to anyone with even a passing interest, “knockers! You know, boobies?” She’s donated 1...

Megan Rumbelow was certain she would fit right in when she moved back to Bermuda. She was Bermudian after all, and had lived here until her parents split up when she was 10. “After that I rotated between America, Bermuda and England,” said the 36-yea...

In Carolyn Amaral’s day, cooking was important. High schools included classes as part of the curriculum and families made meals together. “Take-out wasn’t really a thing back then,” said the 53-year-old. “We went out to eat maybe once a month.” Coo...

Geisha Chin thinks dance recitals are best left to kids. The problem is that so many moms cannot afford the classes. It is with that in mind the dancer came up with an idea to help struggling, single mothers this Christmas. Sixteen women will take to...

Sara Westhead suspected her son Jonathan was autistic as a toddler, but it was years before doctors confirmed her diagnosis. Because he did not present with classic autism, it made the disorder more difficult to detect. “When some people hear autis...

Lisa Howie is a planner. At the Bermuda National Gallery she often had exhibits planned three or four years down the road. So the next phase in her life is an anomaly. On Thursday she announced she was stepping down after eight years as executive d...

Scott Tucker got into organic farming thinking it would be a breeze. Two years later, he laughs at his naïveté. “Just shoot me,” joked the 60-year-old who runs Bermyfresh Farms with Martin Hatfield. “There’s nothing easy about organic farming.” It’s...

Paige Hallett couldn’t resist trying out. She’d loved The Wizard of Oz since the age of 9, when she first saw it performed live. “I was mesmerised,” said the 27-year-old who stars as Dorothy in the Gilbert & Sullivan production, which opens tonight. ...

Half a mile can feel like an eternity when you’ve never run before and Al Williams had to be reined in. “I had to ask him to slow down or he was going to hurt himself,” said Catherine Burns. It’s something that hardly ever happens in Beat the Couch,...

Felicity Holmes felt guilty for eight years. In 2009, she had promised her dying mother, Molly Smith, that she would complete her book. It had been written and edited; photographs were attached. All she needed to do was publish it. “I felt bad that...