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...
thinking serious looks
Fifteen minutes later, a meeting was called. "Okay, look." Deb's face was dead serious. "I know I just joined this project, and I don't want to offend anyone. But I'm going to be honest. I think you've been going about this all wrong." "I'm offended," Dave told her flatly.
sweet kings princess
Once she'd loved my filet mignon, my carnivore inklings, but now she was a vegan princess, living off of beans. She'd given up the cheese and bacon, sworn off Burger King, and when I wouldn't do the same she gave me back my ring. I stood there by the romaine lettuce, feeling my heart pine. Wishing that this meatless beauty still would be all mine. She turned around to go to checkout, fifteen items or less. And I knew this was the last go-round, so this is what I said. ... "Don't you ever give me no rotten tomato, 'cause all I ever wanted was your sweet potato.
girl thyme
Says the girl with no thyme.
goodbye world ships
But all the love in the world won't save a sinking ship. You have to either bail or jump overboard.
firsts sometimes charm
Sometimes, you get things right the first time. Others, the second. But the third time, they say, is the charm.
summer real distance
There was only so much space between us, not even a real distance if measured in miles or feet or even inches, all the things that told you how far you'd come or had left to go. But it was a big space, if only for me. And as I moved forward to him covering it, he waited there on the other side. It was only the last little bit I has to go, but in the end, I knew it would be all I would truly remember. So as I kissed him, bringing this summer and everything else full circle, I let myself fall, and was not scared of the ground I knew would rise up to meet me.
choices blame ifs
It's a choice, Annabel. And if you make the wrong one, you have only yourself to blame when there are consequences.
challenges ifs
I wondered if it was really because he cared about me, or if now I was just another challenge.
response decided
So finally, I decided that the best response — the safest — was none at all.
house toilets
So it just wasn't in my house. Anywhere, I looked like I knew about the toilet.
teenager fearless want
Teenagers are a great audience and they are fearless about asking what they want to know.
book thinking long
It's a great compliment that people think they're fast reads. It's always funny to me because it takes so long to get a book (written) -- for me, it's never quick.
writing wrapping-paper notes
I write thank-you notes the minute I throw the wrapping paper away.
kind imagine enlightened
The kind who live for music and are constantly seeking it out, anywhere they can. Who can't imagine a life without it. They're enlightened.