I cycle the scant half-mile to the boat launch.
It takes me nearly half an hour to swim
half a mile across the choppy, floppy lake.
I make it halfway back up the hill before
I have to stand up on the pedals to pump to the top,
trailing half the weed of the Great Lakes in my wake.
I am half a century old, which in cat years
is practically Methusaleh. Even so
my mother’s mantra haunts me:
Never do things by halves;
when I get home, I eat the whole cookie.
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About Rosalind C Hughes
Rosalind C Hughes is a priest and author living near the shores of Lake Erie. After growing up in England and Wales, and living briefly in Singapore, she is now settled in Ohio. She serves an Episcopal church just outside Cleveland. Rosalind is the author of A Family Like Mine: Biblical Stories of Love, Loss, and Longing , and Whom Shall I Fear? Urgent Questions for Christians in an Age of Violence, both from Upper Room Books. She loves the lake, misses the ocean, and is finally coming to terms with snow.
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