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Local activist raises awareness through Texas swim

Local activist raises awareness through Texas swim By SCOTT MERZBACH Staff Writer Friday, October 12, 2018 AMHERST MA AMHERST — A recent 20-mile swim in Texas by an Amherst woman raised both money and awareness for an organization that is fighting institutional discrimination, including that faced by families and individuals crossing the southern border of … Continue reading →

Help the Texas Civil Rights Project! (And in return, I’ll swim A LOT.)

In less than two weeks, I will enter the waters of Lake LBJ, in Texas. For 20 miles, I will swim, doing what I know how to do, all the while raising money for and honoring the work of the Texas Civil Rights Project. And for the first time in my swimming career, I am … Continue reading →

Swimming through the seasons.

Circumnavigation of Culebra – Puerto Rico

Route Description – Circumnavigation of Culebra, Puerto Rico. Start and finish at Mosquito Bay Beach. Start and Finish – Mosquito Bay Beach, Latitude 18.29708, Longitute -65.26535 Certified Route Distance – 31.3 km, 19.44 miles. Swim Data: Start: 29 August 2017, 5:50 am Finish: 29 August 2017, 5:54 pm Elapsed: 12:04 Summary of Conditions: Water Temp: … Continue reading →

Summer Swimming Magic.

Thank you all for another wonderful summer in the water. And remember that the swimming does not end because the seasons change. The water is waiting for you!

When it’s time to NOT swim.

Right now, I am not on an airplane. As I write, I should be getting ready to land in Chicago, preparing to board my second flight and head to Portland, Oregon for the Portland Bridge Swim. Instead, I am sitting at my kitchen table. I am drinking coffee, wondering what I will do with the … Continue reading →

Let Summer be Summer, and the swimming will come.

In the Winter, I start getting the calls and emails. “My daughter is 4. She isn’t swimming yet. Can we schedule her for every day in the Summer?” “My son is on swim team but he’s not progressing as quickly as the other kids in his lane. He’s 8. Can you fix his breaststroke?” “She … Continue reading →

When all else fails, there is still swimming.

For many of us right now, this is a tense, tumultuous, scary time. I know that for me, anxiety has been running at Full Tilt for quite a while now. The water is my respite from it all. It’s the place where quiet reigns. The place where no phones or televisions or social media posts … Continue reading →

Happy New Year, Swimmy Friends!

Happy 2017 from Swimcrest. May this year bring good things for all of us, whether in the water or out. And of course, thank you for another year of wonderful support. You make every day here a lovely one and I’m so lucky to know you all. Despite my lack of writing here, the swimming … Continue reading →

Statement of Diversity and Inclusion

In the wake of the events of this past week, I am reposting this part of my site. Because it matters. Because I am here for you. Because I will not allow messages of hatred and fear to rule our lives, and because the water is a place for us to heal as we move … Continue reading →