Sweet Ice Tea and FirefliesThat's the title of my summer spent in Virginia. Life's very different here. Everyone enjoys talking to each other and everyone always wants to listen to you talk about your life. It's a very different mindset than Alaska, we don't really like to socialize very often or even when we do want to, we can't because it's quite too cold to go and do anything. People in the...

And then, he kissed me. It wasn't anything like i had dreamed it, or wrote about. He didn't grab my waist and pull me in, there wasn't a beautiful background from the starry skies. We weren't laying on a blanket after a night out on the town, nor had I known him for very long. We were sitting in the lifeguard shack, just the two of us, because the others all had partying to do on the last night...

You asked my friend today, when she said she was on the swim team, if she knew a girl named Katelynn Pendleton and when she replied to you with a yes-one that I’m pretty sure you were expecting-you decided to tell her that you “really disliked me”.Well who the hell do you think you are?I swear I must of apologized a hundred times to you, all those summers ago, but you never once told me why...

I think I’ve learned one of the greatest lessons you can learn from a sport this season.I’ve had the great privilege to be under a lot of amazing coaches, who in their own right, have accomplished more than most people do in a lifetime. But there is one who stands out among them all. Her name is Patty Flemming. Formerly known as Patty Nash, she’s a legend in these parts and I consider it a...

I honestly wanted my boys to come back.I missed my competition; I missed how they never let me give up.I figured when they came back everything would still be the same as it was 3 months ago.Oh could I have gotten any farther from the truth.They are cockier than ever, thinking they got it all.While I’m stuck behind them, for a wonderful 2 hour practice, while they goof around and jerk off.Oh and...