A certain type of British summer afternoon culminates in someone getting drenched on a grassy bank with a towel draped…
Browsing: Swimming
Every May, a little ritual takes place in homes all over the nation. From the loft, suitcases descend. Flip-flops from…
In a British backyard, there’s a certain sound that heralds summer and it’s not birdsong. It’s the slow groan of…
Every weekday I keep seeing this scene in suburban driveways and apartment lobbies: parents looking at the time, children half…
At six in the morning, there’s a certain quiet inside a public pool. The lifeguard drinks coffee from a paper…
On a Saturday morning, you can see them if you stroll by any community pool. Bright pink and electric blue…
There is a certain time in almost every public pool in the country, usually around 7 a.m. on a weekday.…
The custom is familiar to anyone who learned to swim prior to the late 1990s. For the remainder of the…
It’s always the first warm weekend of the year. You can see them if you drive through nearly any suburban…
A mother watches her six-year-old paddle in what appears to be more determined splashing than swimming as she stands by…