Owning a house is a luxury, and owning one with a pool is even more so. Apart from being a fantastic way to keep cool during the hot summer months, pools provide a fun, outdoor place to entertain ...

Rebecca Brill is a writer whose essays have appeared in The Paris Review Daily, VICE, Literary Hub, and elsewhere. She runs the Susan Sontag's Diary and the Sylvia Plath's Food Diary accounts on ...