Tag: Diana Nyad

Hero #5: Diana Nyad

H. Scott DaltonNo Comments

To be completely honest, I’m a lousy swimmer. I’ve never swam a mile. Not half a mile. Not even a quarter. Diana Nyad swam a hundred miles in September, give or take a few miles. She did it across open ocean from Cuba to Florida, through waters infested with sharks and jellyfish. It wasn’t her […]

Heroes of 2013

H. Scott Dalton2 Comments

I’m a little late on the 2013 retrospectives; most of our media sources are already falling over themselves to forget 2013, or at least to start making predictions for 2014. But I want to take a few days this month to honor people whose efforts I think are worth remembering. Are they heroes? Teddy Roosevelt […]