Swim Lessons
I watch my friend Jo swim laps in our neighborhood pool and admire her steady stroke, cutting through the cerulean water with little effort. As she glides to the pool's edge and somersaults under the water, I see her swim cap bob up again without missing a beat. She urges me to get in. "Nah, I'll go down like a rock," I tell her. "Come on, I'll teach you how," she says. Not today, my friend. When I was a kid, my mother told me that she had a bad... Read More
