My family has a beachfront summer home on Lake Michigan. We’re just a stone’s throw from a state park. A couple of years ago, on a crowded July 4, seven people drowned within one-quarter mile...
Fitness
If there is a theme to my swimming career it can probably be called, surrounded by greatness.
I grew up on the north side of Chicago. My family had a cabin on the Southeastern shores of Lake...
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