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Debra Friedman travelled the island taking random shots of Bermuda teens last year. An exhibit at Masterworks was all she had on her mind but months later, the photographs have found their way into a book. Wilderness and Wonderland, Photographing Tee...

Sebastian Lee never expected to find much in common with a group of special-needs children. Until he volunteered at Dame Marjorie Bean Hope Academy, the 14-year-old didn’t know anybody with physical or mental challenges. “The biggest surprise was tha...

Angela Holton was devastated when her dog Kobi died. Instead of wallowing in her grief, she did something positive in memory of the 14-year-old Yorkshire Terrier: the New York real estate agent quit her job and started a business here. Love Sanctuar...

Isabella Zuill-McKenzie agonised over Shakespeare as a student. Her classmates usually spoke the bard’s words in such a monotone all meaning was lost. Even when she read the stories herself, she had no clue what was going on. So when BMDS held an aud...

There was no heroes’ welcome when Eldridge and Shannel Burrows completed the Appleby Bermuda Half-Marathon Derby last month. It took them just under four hours to get to Bernard Park. By the time they got there, the finish line was packed away and th...

Kerri Seymour got blank looks when she told her Canadian friends the food tasted “well”. When she “axed” a question they corrected her pronunciation. When she said she was “vaxed” they were at a complete loss. “I was surprised as I thought I spoke...

It was a birthday party to remember: 18 dogs dressed to the nines, in bow ties and outfits. Everyone had cake and the birthday boy, Casey the Yorkshire terrier, got lots of presents. His owner, 85-year-old Lola Beane, decided to hold the party last m...

Zoe Lopes never expected to take the top prize in the BSoA student art competition. She’d actually created the winning portrait, of a young woman in watercolour, pen and ink, for her GCSE last year. Her former art teacher at Berkeley Institute, Chr...

Damn, I’m still alive. That’s what Tania Stafford thought when she awoke from a failed suicide attempt in October 2010. She’d neatly cut an artery in her arm, hoping to quietly slip away from the world. Luckily, her cat woke her up. “At first I thou...

They’re either going to really, really love it, or really, really hate it. That’s what Afnan Farooqui’s teacher said when she entered a Canadian high-school essay competition in January. The teacher was worried because the CedarBridge Academy student...