One of my grandfathers once said that "Everything you do helps you with something else."  There's a lot of truth in that!  Every piece of knowledge is connected to other pieces of knowledge, every experience prepares us for other experiences, every skill we learn makes it easier to acquire other skills, and every time we develop our muscles it enables us to do activities besides the ones that

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Last October, I was schedule to swim in a Masters meet, but picked up a cold during the week preceding it.  I still wasn't totally recovered by the day of the meet, but I didn't have a fever, and I was reluctant to miss the meet, since there aren't all that many Masters meets in my area in any given year.

The Masters swim meet schedule is quite a bit different from a high school or college swim

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We're entering the season of the year when, where I live, the kids' summer swim leagues are beginning their practices and meets.  Some of these are held in pools.  Others are held in lakes where there are docks that have been carefully placed so as to be separated by 25 yards or 25 meters or, in a few cases, 50 meters, with lane lines strung between them and the standard flags that, in pools, are

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On December 15, 1965, the first space rendezvous occurred when Walter Schirra and Thomas Stafford brought their Gemini 6 spacecraft within 30 centimeters of the Gemini 7 spacecraft, piloted by Frank Borman and Jim Lovell.  But this was not the first attempt at space rendezvous.  On June 3rd of that same year, Jim McDivitt and Ed White had tried to rendezvous their Gemini 4 spacecraft with the

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