I've gone swimming in ponds, lakes and oceans, but nothing beats the convenience of having a private pool a few steps away from the back door. After sweating out one too many summers, I decided to ...

My husband had joked about getting a pool someday, but it wasn't really in our budget. Five summers ago, we decided to get an inexpensive, by comparison, above-ground pool from Costco. The $700 ...

We’d never had a pool before, but the house came with one, which was part of its appeal, at least in my eyes. We were in our early thirties then, with two children—Molly, four, and Jordan, two—and we ...