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Leona Thompson is 100 today. Her posture is straight and her mind is razor-sharp; she’s only semi-retired from the job she’s held for 51 years. She still does her own cooking and cleaning. “I can scarcely believe I’m 100, myself,” she said. “I don’t ...

Vidya Cannonier-Watson was barely out of diapers when she fell in love with ballet. Her mother, Sophia Cannonier, was a professional ballerina and she’d spend hours watching her dance. “I wanted to be just like her and do what she did,” said the nine...

About four years ago, Julie Grayston-Smith lost her sense of taste. She had breast cancer, and the chemotherapy and radiation treatments left their mark. As she cooked for a living, it made her job very difficult. “You get this metallic taste in your...

Penny Saltus cannot walk down the street without hearing a child singing out: “Hi, Aunt Penny!” Children call it from bus windows, in the street, in the grocery store. A hug often follows. In the past 33 years, Ms Saltus has worked with hundreds of ...

Kennita Perry awoke from brain surgery longing to hold her baby daughter. Two hours later, she had forgotten about eight-month-old Aurora completely. “The surgery to repair a blocked artery in my brain went really well but the blood flow in my brain ...

Samuel Lynch has never married — and doesn’t regret it. Being single means he can do exactly what he wants; in his case that means helping others. “That hasn’t been a disappointment,” the 71-year-old said. “It has left me free to go to various places...

Saskia Wolsak was always fascinated by Bermuda’s plants. She grew up in Canada, but spent summers here with her maternal Bermudian family. “My mother was always giving me a taste of fennel or an allspice leaf to smell,” she said. “My grandfather wo...

Spencer Field felt a rush the first time he opened a beehive. As he peered under the wooden lid, thousands of little worker bees looked up at him. He remained calm, and so did they. “They take their cues from you,” he said. Unlike some on the course...

Peter Raymont likes to joke that at 67, he’s really old. When he started as a film-maker, a Bolex movie camera was state-of-the-art. It used 16-millimetre film and had three lens settings. “I used them when I started out working as an editor for the...

It’s hard for children in Bermuda to imagine life in the Arctic. It’s over 3,000 miles away, and a lot colder. Northlands Primary principal Charles Joyiens had to do a lot of explaining when he told students they’d Skype with someone there. “They k...