Life

Just returned from my vacation. And I’m as happy to be back in Victoria as Rob Ford returning home from a press conference. Why? Well, apparently, while on holidays, you have to keep your wits about you.

To treat her severe neck pain, free-diver Jill Yoneda faced the possibility she would never again glide in the ocean to depths of 55 metres.

In 1907, Canada’s Department of Indian Affairs sent Dr. Peter Henderson Bryce to investigate residential schools in Manitoba and the N.W.T. Bryce found dilapidated buildings, tuberculosis and shocking death rates.

It was a perfect storm of climate, conditions and camaraderie at Swiftsure Central on Thursday evening.

Does the doctor always know best? Normally, yes.

Eddie looked at me, hands on his hips, tears covering his face, and said it for the 20th time that day. “Mama, I don’t really love you. I hate you.

Last week, we had a question about self-esteem: “My 11-year-old daughter is really hard on herself. She says things like, ‘I am stupid, I am ugly.’ It really breaks my heart. Words just don’t seem to make a difference.

Swiftsure chairman Vern Burkhardt was hooked the moment he sailed for the first time almost 30 years ago. “It’s magical being on the water and using the wind as your method of propulsion,” he said this week.

“It is remarkably precocious when a person accomplishes anything after the age of 30.

These prawns will hit the spot.