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Nothing about Gray Robinson’s first hours of kite surfing suggested a future career. He struggled to put his first kite board together in 2001. Eventually he and his father, Gordon Robinson Jr, got the contraption in working order and took it to Elb...

Pete and Annesa Saunders didn’t set out on a 500-mile walk to develop greater patience. They walked the Camino Francés trail from France to Spain last month to raise $25,000 for Impact Mentoring Academy. The joy they got from learning to stop and s...

It’s not always easy for Cynthia Dias to stay positive. The 62-year-old has spent the past seven years battling Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Sometimes, when she tried to relax, anxious thoughts rocketed around her mind. Four years ago, she found peace through...

Alice Bean is a bit shy and never liked surprises much. But some are better than others. Last month she was blown away when her granddaughter, Michela Outerbridge, surprised her with a lunch at Bella Vista Bar and Grill in Southampton. Many of her s...

Mary Smith was 8 when she had her first drink. It was an accident. She took the miniature bottle from her grandfather’s bar, thinking it was soda. “It was a pretty green bottle,” she said. “Once I got that warm, fuzzy feeling, I knew it was alcohol.”...

When Cha’von Clarke-Joell moved to England she thought her Bermuda passport qualified her for employment. It should have, but a government official at the nearest Jobcentre office saw things differently. After a year struggling to get the national i...

When reggae artist Giles “Sir Dudley” Spurling wrote his new song Born Bermudian, he wanted to celebrate his culture. The first words out of his mouth when he started composing were: “Mi a born Bermudian...” And while he received positive feedback to...

Growing up in the 1950s Joan Friedman did everything with her twin. They wore matching outfits, had alliterative names — Joan and Jane, and were always the life of the party. “Twins were unusual in the 1950s,” the psychotherapist said. “We got a l...

There’s nothing fun about being called a geriatric. Golden-ager and senior citizen aren’t much better. Bill Storie and Robin Trimingham realised that when they started a retirement blog in 2013. “Maybe in some circumstances those words have a positi...

For 20 years Florence Dearing was a faithful Meals on Wheels volunteer. Then she fell and broke her pelvis. “I just turned on a mat and went down,” said the 88-year-old. Recovery took months and suddenly it was her in need of assistance. “Meals on ...