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Your West Coast Culture. A magazine about the people and places that make the Saanich Peninsula the little piece of paradise we call home.

Starfish

The Myth of Aging

We are what we believe! I just turned sixty-three and if I believed what I read in magazines and the news about getting older, I would stop making plans, start knitting doilies and sadly await the setting sun. All the medical experts tell me that it is all downhill now as my body and mind […]

The Myth of Aging

Starfish

The Final Frontier

Glenn Close was riveting! My eyes watered as I listened to her poignant moving story about mental illness in her family. All of a sudden, Ms. Close was no longer the Hollywood legend illuminating the Silver Screen, but a fallible fellow human being dealing with a gut-wrenching issue that haunts many of our lives. But,

The Final Frontier

Starfish

The Ghosts of D’Arcy Island

Just off the coast of our peaceful seaside community, unquiet ghosts rage against the gods in the morning mist. Our wild West Coast beauty harbours a very ugly piece of human history. D’Arcy Island was a leper colony from 1891 to 1924. It housed society’s untouchables: the soiled and diseased ones – shoved away into

The Ghosts of D’Arcy Island

Starfish

Human To Human

Is proper communication dead? A recent email nightmare gives me cause for concern. Someone with limited communication skills decided to get very annoyed with me by email. I was flattened to see an online message full of bold red letters followed by multiple exclamation marks. It left me wondering: Have emailing, texting, tweeting and Facebook

Human To Human

Starfish

The Tao of Self-Love

When is the last time that you saw a movie or heard a song about our most important love affair of all – the one with ourselves? Every second of the day we are brainwashed and inundated with songs, media messages and films about the desperate need to be loved by others. There are millions

The Tao of Self-Love

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