SWIMMING LESSONS
MY SWIMSUIT DID NOTHING to protect me from the frigid spray of water shooting out of the tap. “That’s the cold shower, but if you wait a minute, it usually warms up,” said a voice a few faucets down from me in the community pool showers. I turned to see a woman, about 75, lathering shampoo into her thinning grey hair and using the excess suds as body wash, careful not to waste a single bubble. It took me a second to register that she had pulled her floral one-piece down to
