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Do What Scares You
It’s been a grind of a year. Mostly my own fault. Work has been rough. I’ve had two low performing coordinators in a row and it’s really difficult to do my job when I can’t rely on the people ...
The Fine Art of Self-Destruction
It’s been a year. Objectively, I am on top of the world. Woman of the year in my sport for the second consecutive year. Was presented with two Guinness world records last weekend. My summer p...
We All Have a Hunger
What is your secret guaranteed weeping movie? I wouldn’t put on a movie with the intent to make myself cry, but I do a lot of crying on airplanes, usually while watching movies. I think it’s the...
Swimming With Penguins
I really need to get back into the habit of this. Work trip after Hong Kong, got back just in time for US National Champs Still wasn’t feeling any of it but I put a smile on my face, did my best...
Beluga Sevruga
This year has been grating on me so far. For various reasons I cut way back on travel, my brother got married, and I’ve been working way too much. At least six of my friends’ parents died in th...
So It Goes...
Writing is like swimming right? I just need to start, and then it will get easier. When I last wrote, it was late April. In early May my dad was honored at the first in a series of ceremonies ...
Warriors & Scoundrels
I should write: - Good swims and fun times with A and my English Bestie Amy and all our other wonderful friends at the UK Cold Water Swimming Championships - An amazing and luxurious impromptu V...
Breaking the Ice
Objectively, 2016 was a phenomenal year for me. I achieved most of my personal goals and some unexpected ones: Won the International Winter Swimming Association World Cup Completed non-stop sol...
Success is Counted Sweetest
Another month, another entry. After getting back from Italy work kept me busy, outside of that trying to train, trying to yoga, trying to eat decently, trying to get enough sleep but not be lazy...
This Beautiful & Terrible World
It’s been a roller-coaster summer so far. My own life is relatively calm, but every couple of days we wake up to something horrible in the news. All this life lost, all this craziness political...
Humbling
I’m in kind of a weird mood. This weekend we drove upstate with my friend Janine and kayaker Alex. A met us up there and we stayed at the house of Bob, a race organizer, to do a test swim for a...
From the Sun to the Moon & Back
I’m in limbo with no motivation to do anything. Inertia. Bad thoughts swirling through my head, feeling hopeless. For a month after Iceland I put myself through a cleanse of sorts. No alcohol...
More Icelandic Sagas
After the World Championships I had a blissful 2 weeks at home before I had to head out again. The day after I got back I had an even for my least favorite group, but it went pretty well and I w...
Swimming in Siberia
Got back from Vermont, unpacked, slept, repacked for Siberia and headed to the airport on Monday afternoon. Met up with Bill and Brad at JFK and landed in Moscow around 7am local time. We heade...
Memphremagog Monsters
Last I wrote, I was on a work trip, my last one for the season most likely! I left a suitcase with my swim stuff and cold weather gear at home and A picked me up in midtown with everything in t...
Life at Zero Degrees
Got back from that work trip by 10pm-ish on Friday to see my love. Went for a Coney Island swim the next morning at 9am, or rather breakfast with my girls and then a very quick dip. A and I hun...
So Far So Good
We rang in 2016 at the top of the new One World Trade Center Observatory with amazing views, fireworks, and champagne. You know you’re up high when fireworks look low/small. It was nicer to tak...
Progress Report
So after all that I ate well for the rest of the work day with intent of going to HIIT and yoga after work, then grocery shopping for healthy foods and early bed before SWIM PRACTICE. Instead I ...
The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up
I’m in a funk and it’s lasted long enough that I think it needs to be documented. I gave myself a year of being gentle with myself, indulgent with myself, and now it’s past a year and I know wha...
525,600 Minutes
It’s been a year now that my dad’s been gone. I think in some ways this has been both the hardest and most the most amazing year of my life. Swimming in Siberia. The China trip and my first ti...
Pillar Box Red
What time did you wake up this morning: A bit before 8am. I didn’t have anything until 10am and was up past 2am the last 2 nights working. It’s that time of year again! Is there anyone that co...
Just Be
I’ve been so spoiled, coming off a great 4-day-weekend with A, a short week last week and and vacation just before that - almost 2 weeks of being together most of the day every single day, which ...
Dazzled
I feel like I’ve been in a bad mood all summer. Which means fall should be a relief, but right now I am just dreading the amount of work I need to do and the even bigger tidal wave of work that’...
Blackouts & Airplanes
After Murmansk, life went (somewhat) back to normal. A few days after I returned I went to see Marina & the Diamonds at Bowery Ballroom and ended up running into my friend Brian from freshma...
From Antarctica to the Arctic Circle
After Antarctica I had one night in Buenos Aires, then a red-eye the next day back to JFK. From there I had a few hours at home before I was slated to begin another journey to compete at the fir...
Book Description
“Be daring, be different, be impractical, be anything that will assert integrity of purpose and imaginative vision against the play-it-safers, the creatures of the commonplace, the slaves of the ordinary.”
~ Cecil Beaton
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