It took me a few days to remember why I don’t like this time of year. It’s not the grey weather, or the terror of stepping onto the scale and assessing the damage weeks of holiday eating has wrought. It’s not the fact that the stores are already full o… more »

When I was a kid my parents enrolled me in swimming classes, a decision I’ve always been grateful to them for considering we live on an island and the only way off to get to the rest of Canada is to cross a rather significant stretch of ice cold Pacific… more »

Swimming is not a glamorous activity unless you are Michael Phelps, we all know this. The average person does not radiate beauty and style while clad in a wet bathing suit, skin flushed from being submerged in a whirlpool soup of unknown chemistry. We g… more »