JUST THE START Life The little island went under a 24hr-curfew. We can see the beach, we just can’t go to the beach. Bond is very confused, as…
New Year’s Eve Events New Year would be filled with light and sunshine for much of the Bahamas, except for those islands and families hit hard by the…
STOP AND SMELL THE ROSES Life After a few intense weeks and months working between several non-profit foundations I came home to England where I stopped and smelt the roses for…
GLOBAL EMPOWERMENT MISSION Life There are so many other stories, like the chap who wrapped his arms around a palm tree, in one hand he held onto his…
IDEA Relief Life “Rum and rain” said one chap when asked what he had been surviving on during the long days after the hurricane, stranded alone on…
COURAGE AND INNOCENCE Life Of course it’s their stories that are so remarkable- and their courage- and in the case of the children, their innocence. “Where are your…
DESPAIR IS A LOATHSOME BEAST Life The disaster agencies and relief teams are now firmly in place on Abaco and so the small evacuee effort here moves onto the Berry…
THE INDOMITABLE HUMAN SPIRIT Events I expected to see what I saw. Dehydrated babies, dazed kids, angry men, exhausted grandmothers, we have all seen pictures of what packed evacuee…
HURRICANE DORIAN Events Hurricane Dorian swept past us on Harbour Island. Bruised, but none of the catastrophic effects that we saw happen later to our neighboring islands.…
#100DAYS100K Responsibility We were standing in the drawing room of a mansion. There was a grand piano, silk curtains, fresh flowers, views of mown lawns and…
International Women’s Day Life Here I am with Sakiko Togi from Japan, Cathy Pick from the US, Dagmara Szulce from Poland, Corazon Romero and Cora Frattali from the…
Beyond a Handbag Responsibility This week I went to an IH Get Together Give Together event and heard Roslyn Cunningham talk about the Msumarini Clinic in Africa, where…
ZION CHILDREN’S HOME Responsibility The Zion Children’s Home is a safe space bringing hope to sexually, physically and mentally abused, abandoned and neglected kids here in The Bahamas.…
Women’s Entrepreneurship Day Responsibility With all we juggle in our beautifully chaotic lives, it’s often impossible to know of special days in the year set aside to mark…
The Berkeley In Balance The smell of rose and peonies, the sound of Wimbledon on television, queues of cars slowly winding their way over the bridge at Henley…
Get Together, Give Together Events Our Ambassador tribe attracts the most extraordinary women. Whether accomplished as designers, performers, writers, musicians, mothers, they seem to have at least two things…
Life Lessons Events Just before Christmas, whilst in New York, I attended a Get Together hosted by Jessica, one of the extraordinary women who have partnered with…
8 Is Pretty Great Responsibility I get pretty excited about kids’ parties. Lucky really as I have 5 of them. Kids that is. We have quite a bit of…
I Write This Myself In Balance Recently on one of my blog posts a reader left a rather irate comment saying that clearly I did not write my own posts…
PAT Responsibility Sixty years ago a woman, with five small boys, turned up on my mother's doorstep. She had been mistreated by her husband and had left him, taking with her their children. She was looking for work.