As a child, the woods I lived by had a pond covered in duckweed, and I would go to it and toss rocks into the water. Each time, the stone made a plopping sound and broke the blanket of thousands of ...

Naiad offers real pleasures and real frustrations - but always with a purpose in mind. There's a moment when I'm swimming that I can't get over. I'm about to start the front crawl. Feet up against the ...