Author: Ted Gibbons

People ask why I’m doing it – I say it makes me smile On the morning of 9/11, I woke to what should have been a beautiful day. I was a personal trainer in Philadelphia. As I prepared to head out on a bike ride, the world...

He fell asleep in my palm. As far as he was concerned, I was his mother In 2013, my husband, Robin, took a new job in Ghana. We relocated from London, where I worked as a photographer and copywriter, to the capital, Accra. We...

It was like a war zone. There were bodies everywhere and people wandering around in shock I’ve had traumatic experiences throughout my life. I was abused as a child, and my father was beaten to death in his flat over a rented...

I never thought that, by an accident of fate, I’d tie the knot so quickly On 22 December last year, I travelled three hours from my village in Shaanxi province, in north-west China, to the city of Xianyang to meet Zhao Fei and...

If he’d done this to a stranger, what might have happened to me? Growing up in Toronto, I have always known that I was adopted. The knowledge that I wasn’t my adoptive parents’ flesh and blood offered the comfort that my future...