It’s a gorgeous sunny day and the bay was calling me, but for a variety of reasons, it needed to be a pool day. In December, my daughter, Hazel, started working as a lifeguard at the downtown Berkeley Y. So of course I immediately reactivated my membership. I told myself it was practical given my… Read More It’s Fun to Swim at the YMCA (Day 24)
Today was a swirl of the kind of anxious, gnawing worry that often accompanies parenthood. A sick daughter in a faraway country, a flurry of stress as we try and figure out how to get her home. I put my swimming clothes on at 7:15 in the morning and didn’t get into the water until… Read More Worrying (Day 7)
Swimming in the rain is particular magical. In the summer there’s nothing better than jumping into the lake in a downpour; the water seemingly everywhere, you just an insignificant speck of nothing in the midst of mother earth’s joyous cleansing. Sadly, we are advised against swimming in the bay for up to 72 hours after… Read More Beautiful Rain (Day 4)