Category: Swimming
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The Quest for a Third Place
By Jay Hiller, January 29, 2023 Photo by Kris Atomic on Unsplash There’s work. There’s home. And there’s a third place, where you run into people you know and have a good time. As if life were that old TV show, Cheers. My third place used to be a yoga studio I spent a lot…
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After dark swim
By Jay Hiller, September 24, 2022 My husband talked me into going to our neighborhood pool tonight and we had it to ourselves. I’m glad I went though I didn’t want to initially–it was nice to be home. We swam laps for a little while and then we stretched and played in the water. With…
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Take me swimmin’:
How learning to swim changed my life by Jay Hiller, August 13, 2022 The most important class I took at the University of Texas was a 1 credit hour swimming class for adult beginners. It was taught by a master teacher, Ms. Rosemary Slacks in the old Anna Hiss gym. At the beginning of the…