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Some people might see writing their own obituary as morbid but not Linda DeSilva. The 90-year-old has one ready to go, when the time comes. “Writing it wasn’t a sad task,” she said. “I know that I am going to die one day. And when I do, I will be re...

Colleen DeGrilla used to spend her time dashing from crisis to crisis. She was a social worker at King Edward VII Memorial Hospital at the time, dealing with everything from suspected child abuse to emergency air vacs. Today her pace is a lot slower...

The four-letter expletive he’d spread across canvas appropriately summed up Calix Smith’s frustration with the education system. He couldn’t believe it when the organisers of a fashion show wouldn’t let him hang it at their event last year. “It was o...

Ellen Kelly’s favourite saying as a teacher was time waits for no man. She’s often reminded of that when she meets former students. “Some of them are 50 years old now,” said the 70-year-old. “I don’t feel old, I feel like Rip Van Winkle. I wonder if...

At 32, Michael Pitcher was jailed for life. High on cocaine, he and another man broke into a senior citizen’s home and beat her with a stick. Days later, she died from her injuries in hospital. When the verdict came in, he thought his life was over. ...

Terita Bean will never forget the call. The person at the other end was telling her she had been named Mother of the Year. Problem was, she didn’t have any children. It turned out she’d been nominated for the annual Continental Society competition by...

Margaret Giloth remembers being painfully shy as a child. She believes having eclectic hobbies helped find her identity: arranging flowers, collecting hats and modelling in fashion shows. “I couldn’t figure out who I was by following the crowd,” said...

Grace and Liam Flannery put their heart and soul into their first art exhibition. The ten and 13-year-old siblings put up sketches, paintings and ceramics in Journeys: Real and Imagined, at the Bermuda College. Gack stole the show. “I made green sli...

Cancer “knocked the hell” out of Jon Beard’s life. It took his wife, Jennie, in 2009 and then his father, Ray. In 2014, Mr Beard found out he had prostate cancer, the disease that had killed his father the year before. “It was disconcerting to develo...

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 ...