As I paddled into Kingston last September, after a six-day traverse along the north shore of Lake Ontario, I spotted a pair of neoprene-covered heads bobbing in the harbour. Val Hamilton and Mary Ann Higgs, septuagenarian best friends, were testing their brand new wetsuits. They wanted to continue swimming as the weather turned cold. Hamilton was in the midst of radiation therapy for…
Dan Rubinstein
Dan Rubinstein wrote Born to Walk. His follow-up, Water Borne, will be out in June.