Category: Swimming
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My bottle of cheap hair conditioner is almost empty or summer doesn’t last forever
by Jay Hiller, July 4, 2023 Photo by Joan Tran on Unsplash I’ve been swimming a lot this summer. To keep my hair color from fading, before I swim I get it completely wet in the shower and then I saturate it with cheap creme rinse and put on a cap. The bottle’s almost empty…
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Morning Quarry Swim
By Jay Hiller, June 30, 2023 Photo by Christopher Coronado, Lifetime Fitness website My husband likes movie quotes. “I’ll take you someplace you’ve never been before,” he said the other day. (Do you know what movie that’s from?) I knew where we were going. He went about a week ago after clearing brush for a…
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A bathing suit with me at all times
By Jay Hiller, June 5, 2023 You can never have too many bathing suits. Photo by Malik Skydsgaard on Unsplash “And when you mean, with you, you don’t just mean in the same building, but you don’t know where it is?” my husband asked. I’ve had a series of locker room mishaps since I joined…
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Rainy weather morning swim
By Jay Hiller, May 13, 2023 Photo by Max Bender on Unsplash Just last night when I wrote about how I used to swim on Friday afternoons, I thought about how I should go to the neighborhood pool more often. After we took the dogs this morning, my husband suggested that we go swimming. It’s…
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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…