This past weekend I played in two beach volleyball tournaments! I haven’t done that in years. It was fun. The weather was terrific. And I won prizes both days—third in women’s A and second in co-ed A with Luke (the latter one is misleading because there was just the A division, then Open, so really the competition by the end of the day was AA, although I suppose you could argue that the better AA teams would have played up in the Open bracket). I suppose that might mean I should have played in a tougher division, but since these were the second and third tournaments I was playing in three years, it seemed like being conservative was the better choice. In any case, I wasn’t confident I had the stamina to survive a whole day on the beach under the hot sun, let alone for two days in a row.

I hope to play as often as I can this summer because having lost two entire summers in the blink of an eye, I now realize how easy it is to miss out on experiences and time and not even notice it except in hindsight.