Our granddaughter is a water-baby. Of course, I would get in all sorts of trouble for labeling her a “baby” of any sort, since she’ll soon reach the ripe old age of six. But she truly does love the water. If she could, she would spend endless hours in the pool, or, if no pool is available, she would settle for running through the sprinklers – or taking a shower – or squirting Papa with a squirt gun ….

Papa, on the other hand, is not so fond of swimming. In the first place, you have to change clothes and that seems a bit too much to ask on my day off. And, besides that, I don’t actually swim al...