I drew this in July, six months before the 24-hour swim. That's how excited I was to return. Swim No. 1, 9:58 a.m.: This must be h...

So now Doug's gone. Maybe just for a year. Coming back briefly in the fall. We'll see. Lake Natoma got emptier. We'd bee...

This bitty one kept popping up. Persistent. Prankish — she made as if to disappear for good, even stayed away for the longest time, unti...

Don't be fooled by the ferocious sea: It was rocky, but this is from a low angle on a wave just about to crest on the beach, between t...

My my my, it's a beautiful world I like swimming in the sea I like to go out beyond the white breakers Where a man can still be free...

Though I don't look anything close to the überswimmer on the right, I don't look like the dude on the left anymore , either. Swimm...