I’ve always been a swimmer in the sense that I’ve always loved to be in the water, splashing around in lakes and pools and oceans, but I was never a Swimmer. I didn’t really know my strokes and I’d never dream of swimming for exercise. The thing that changed all of that was Adult Swim… Read More Adult Swim (Day 179)
Our first time staying overnight in our house was New Year’s 2005. Snow blanketed the house and yard, thickly covered the frozen lake, and Kevin, Eliza, and I (Hazel was still growing in my belly) had a cozy celebration dreaming of our future adventures here. We stayed in the house several times that winter and… Read More Swimming with Isabelle (Day 178)
I was pregnant with Hazel when we bought this house. Kevin, Eliza, and I were living in Montreal and a colleague of mine at McGill invited us up to his cottage on Lac Louisa one long weekend. We’d already been thinking about trying to find a place on the water somewhere—an aspiration that seemed achievable… Read More Lac Louisa, Quebec (Day 177)
Today’s swim was a long sigh of relief. Relief to be in Canada; to be at this beautiful place. It was a loosening of my cramped muscles after the stress of yesterday followed by the body-contorting gymnastics of a red-eye flight across North America. It was refreshing and replenishing. I swam along the shoreline to… Read More Relief (Day 176)