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The Zen of Water
Water sounds like peace to me.
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Ask her out, already!
Young people don’t realize how short life is.
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The Most Fun I’ve Ever Had Exercising
True confession: I hate to exercise.
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I Was Once a Guppy
… but first I had to be a pollywog.
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The Right to Breathe
When I was about 11 years old, a guy that had a crush on my sister went swimming with us. He was about 18, and his hormones were such that I’m sure he viewed me as a nuisance, just another obstacle blocking his path to the Promised Land. At one point my sister went off…
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Just Keep Swimming
My grandfather was old school. Part of his ability to thrive in America after coming over from Denmark stemmed from his philosophy of wasting neither money nor time. So when the day came to teach his kids to swim there were no lessons at the YMCA for his children. Oh no. He just picked them…
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Rules? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Rules!
As I lie here in a feverish fog brought on by a cold that surely came from the very bowels of hell, I have been thinking about chaos, or more specifically, what keeps our world from falling into chaos. Rules. Not laws, mind you. Those we cannot really control, and must abide by. No, I’m…