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Without Covid-19 Courtney Lopes might never have found her way home. She’d spent 15 years in the US, studying and working as a dancer, and was living in New York when the pandemic hit the city last year. She waited it out for a few months before she ...

Last week we talked about Layer of Crap Syndrome, a common problem where people eat very healthy meals – with a layer of self-sabotaging junk-based snacks on top. I gave you the “crash-free cookie” recipe – packed full of fibre and protein – for a c...

If I mention Bordeaux, it would be understandable if your first thoughts were “too expensive and too complicated”. In reality, this land of historic villages, ancient Roman churches and over 6,000 chateau properties is now offering many very good va...

Last February DaeNyce’ Rabain looked around her and wondered why no one else seemed to be taking Covid-19 seriously. Then in England, in her final year of an undergraduate degree in fine art, she started bugging her teachers: “There’s a virus going o...

It is 6.30am. I am looking out the window to the east; vibrant orange stripes radiate upwards through the sky over a calm, glassy ocean. Soon the sun will rise on a day filled with possibilities! I am thinking that it is time for Bermuda to rise and ...

Depend on dedication not motivation – the all too true phrase you will hear repeatedly throughout your fitness journey. An important practice, it will surely keep you going on days when you “just don’t feel like it”. But what can you do to help you ...

In 1979 Christine Atcheson’s life was a mess. She had been on the island for three years. Her husband had abandoned her and returned to the UK; she had a toddler to raise on her own. In order to deal, she “went full-on into recreational drugs and al...

“When we get to the river there will be a bridge.” Unknown Have you ever wondered how it is that some people always seem to show up at the perfect moment find four leaf clovers, or capitalise on opportunities? Are these people simply lucky? Or are th...

To see Jonathan Betts in action, you’d never think he had asthma. He runs, bikes and swims competitively. His not-so-secret weapon is Symbicort, the preventer he uses twice a day. Bermuda’s asthma charity Open Airways describes it as ’smart’ – a sing...

Introduce new foods to your child, slowly, but surely. Do not make the dinner table a battleground. Make it a pleasant space. If they do not like something do not force them to eat it. Have your child help in the kitchen so they get used to being ar...