Sarah Will
Sarah Will
Sarah Will is a paralympic skier who spent 11 years on the U.S. Disabled Ski Team. During this time, she earned a record 13 medalswhile competing in four Winter Paralympic Games between 1992 and 2002. Will serves as a ski instructor and is otherwise active in the Vail community. She was named to the United States Olympic Hall of Fame in July 2009 and is a nominee for the U.S. Ski and Snowboard Hall of Fame...
might way faces
Look at it this way: I might be saying you're fat, but at least I'm not punching you in the face.' Are those the only options?' Not always. Just sometimes.
feet choices way
Whenever you made a choice, especially one you'd been resisting, it always affected everything else, some in big ways, like a tremor beneath your feet, others in so tiny a shift you hardly noticed a change at all. But it was happening.
ideas faces firsts
Can she be divorced?" I asked. "And famous for her commercials and ideas?" She can be anything," Boo told me, and this is what I remember most, her freckled face so solemn, as if she knew she was the first to tell me. "And so can you.
nice littles too-much
After all with me & Marshall, it had never been about words or conversation, where there was too much to be risked or lost. Here, though, in the quiet pressed against each other, this felt familiar to me. And it was nice to let someone get close again, even if it was just for a little while.
gone easy
It was like that part of my life, was just gone. It was almost too easy, for something I once thought had meant everything.
giving just-friends lock-and-key
The only trick was never giving more that you were willing to lose.
matter stranger worst
With total strangers, it had always been my policy to expect the worst. Usually they-and those that you knew best, for that matter-did not disappoint.
said throat heard
I took in a breath. "What's the one thing you'd do," I asked. "if you could do anything?" Pass," he said. For a second I was sure I'd heard wrong. "What?" He cleared his throat. "I said, I pass." Why?" He turned his head and looked at me. "Because." Because why?" Because I just do.
perfect pieces diverse
How weird was it that so many bits and pieces, all diverse, could make something whole. Something with potential. 'Perfect.
filling-up space empty
I took his wildness from him and tried to fold it into myself, filling up the empty spaces all those second place finishes left behind.
profound comforting chaos
I had this wild thought that he was the only one in all this chaos who was just like me, and that was comforting and profound all at once.
cupcakes want said
You know," I told him,"if you don't know how to eat a cupcake, that's nothing to be ashamed of." Now he did smile. "I know how to eat a cupcake." "Sure you do." "I do," he said. "I just don't want one of those." "Yeah? Prove it.
trying emptiness empty
There's just something obvious about emptiness, even when you try to convince yourself otherwise.
hey woods
Hey, and for what it's worth? Friends don't leave you alone in the woods. Friends are the ones who come and take you out.