Life

Wildlife photographs, Vikings and native languages are all featured in the upcoming year at the Royal B.C. Museum.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 32-year-old woman, and for my whole life, as long as I can remember, I have had a very fast resting heart rate. When I was in my late teens and early 20s, it was around 80 beats per minute.

Even as a child, Iris Gray knew she was different. Her parents always told her she was bright, but she still felt out of place. She had few friends and was chronically clumsy. Other children would delight in loud noises, such as jets flying overhead.

The official opening of the Victoria Public Market at the Hudson is just six days away, but who’s counting? A whole lot of fans of local fruits, vegetables, meat, cheese, herbs and more, that’s who.

Getting old isn’t all bad news. For the first time, come Saturday, I will be eligible for a 20 per cent discount at Shoppers Drug Mart (at least, on the last Thursday of every month).

TORONTO — Zannat Reza says the worst part of packing school lunches is when the food is brought home uneaten.

Two years ago, when my daughter Naomi was in kindergarten, she plunked her Hello Kitty lunch box on the kitchen counter and announced, “Mom, I am the only kid in my class who makes their own lunch.

If you’re looking for some tasty, relatively quick lunch ideas, get folding and rolling and make a wrap. It’s a fun way of making a sandwich and there are myriad ways to fill them.

When Times Colonist cartoonist Adrian Raeside speaks of the 1911 expeditions to Antarctica, he is drawing upon family connections.

Watch your mouth around your unborn child — he or she could be listening in. Babies can pick up language skills while they’re still in the womb, Finnish researchers say.