Learn to Swim!!

If I were a few years (actually, a lot of years) younger, I would consider making use of the day noted above!

In all of my 85 years I never learned to swim.  Not that it has ever made any difference but it could have.  I once was all set to sign up for swimming lessons at the YWCA and, unfortunately, the schedule  ran into our plans for a trip to Texas and I never did go through with it.  I think everyone should know how to swim!
We never lived near water anywhere that we could have learned to swim. Of course there was always the YWCA and public swimming pools. However, our mother thought it was sinful to wear a bathing suit and go into a swimming pool with other people. So we just never had the opportunity to have swimming lessons.  I am sure if I had been drowning in some place it would not have been sinful for someone to save my life! I could not understand my mother's way of thinking. But that is the way she was!
I can't say much for myself because I never saw to it that my kids learned to swim.  They may be able to swim a little but not because of anything I did.  Anyway, That is all water under the bridge.  But I do regret that we were  never a swimming family!