It’s been almost a week now and I still keep thinking of the Fran Crippen story. The 26-year-old swimmer died unexpectedly in an open-water race in the Unite Arabic Emirates. The Olympic hopeful was physically at his prime, handsome, vital and strong, and yet–for reasons still unknown–he is gone.
As a mother, an aunt, and a former swimmer, my thoughts return again and again to his family. He was from Pennsylvannia, my neighboring state. Fran Crippen was a hometown star, who shined brightly for to brief a time. Continue reading »