The Water Was Very Cold Today

And we were in it for a pretty long time

Mergansers. Basically a duck. Photo: Molly Fisk

I swim with this one person all the time. She is ten years older than me, fourteen if you’re counting, and I think people mostly are. She grew up in San Francisco and Marin, notice I did not say the Bay Area, because I find that term almost worthless. Anyway, she’s a Northern Californian for sure, but her parents were from the east coast, so she…