View from the North 40: The '20s bring a changing waterscape to happiness

According to the latest research, now I’m apparently supposed to thank my dad for trying to drown me when I was a child.

That seems pretty messed up, right? Or fitting for these illogical times.

In the swimmer’s version of that infamous parental order to “stop you’re crying or I’ll give you something to cry about,” when I was too scared to swim away from the lakeshore in water that was over my head, my own father picked me up and chucked me off the end of the dock.

And he laughed about it.

Sure, his claim is that he didn’t laugh until I was obviously swimming in the deeper water.

But the way I...