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Shortly after her 50th birthday, Charmaine Tucker learnt she had lung cancer. Having never smoked, she was shocked. What also surprised her was that she hadn’t had any symptoms. The disease is the leading cause of cancer deaths here after breast canc...

We came up with a new tradition at home recently. It’s called Cards & Cocktails and involves a short game of 21 and a cocktail before dinner. We do it almost every evening we’re all together. The kids love it because they drink out of martini glass...

For every Hallowe’en in the past 20-odd years Calvin Simons has turned his house into a spectacle and opened it up to his neighbourhood. Like everyone else he had to pause in 2020 because of the coronavirus pandemic but by the time October rolled aro...

My favourite view of Bermuda is from the air. When I take off or land I feel a deep thrill as the endless canvas of the blue ocean stretches before me and, flung across it, the glittering chain of our small islands so far from the distant horizon. ...

In 1953 Anne Hines became the first Bermudian to successfully dance en pointe in public. She did it at the Colonial Opera House on Victoria Street where she played the dying swan in Swan Lake. “My friend was supposed to do it,” the 82-year-old said. ...

It’s getting cooler! Are you excited? I sure am. As the cooler months approach it makes it that much easier to commit to outdoor training. The sun and all its beautiful heat is more appealing when paired with the cool autumn breeze. Lovely! Also, sou...

The aged Pembroke Rest Home building on Parsons Road had sat empty for 12 years. Its floors and ceilings were falling in and the wiring and plumbing needed a complete overhaul. Edward Fox, a civil service engineer, who sits on the board of Habitat f...

“A garden is never finished” Shunryu Suzuki One of the things that creative minds struggle with the most is how to tell when a project that they are working on is finished. For the purposes of this discussion it really doesn’t matter whether we are t...

Feeling the stress of Covid-19? Robin Trimingham believes she has a cure. It's a YouTube series that she calls Robin's Paradise: 20 Second Sanity Breaks. The idea is that watching short clips of Bermuda scenery might help people to cope with the turm...

In an effort to "ignite hope, faith and encouragement" in Christian believers Ayodele David Salawu has written a book, Word Alive. The ordained minister, who is originally from Nigeria, has an educational background in theological training, humanitie...