Will Miller
Will Miller
Will Milleris an American rower. He is a five time US National Team Member and competed in the Men's eight event at the 2012 Summer Olympics placing 4th. He grew up in Duxbury, MA and received his undergraduate degree from Northeastern University in Boston, MA. He currently resides in San Francisco, CA. His father, Bill Miller, was also a US Olympic rower...
children book lists
If we weigh the significance of a book by the effect it has on its readers, then the great children's books suddenly turn up very high on the list.
butterfly
Of all the butterflies that chose to stay, I’m in love with the one that got away.
dream morning stealing
Dreams would always end with you, and then mornings would steal you away with a cruelty that haunted my days.
children book reading
Adventure,' then, is what might otherwise be called hardship if it were attempted in a different spirit. Turning a difficult task or a perilous journey into an adventure is largely a matter of telling yourself the right story about it, which is one thing that Lewis's child characters have learned from reading, 'the right books.
fire stories body
Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.
butterfly feelings flying
It was a completely new feeling for me–like someone had just released a million, tiny butterflies loose in my stomach, and they were feverishly flying up into my head and making me lose my mind.
past way ifs
The past will find a way to squeeze into the present–if you let it.
leaving gone doe
Maybe everything really does just have an expiration date--one that you can't see until she tells you she's leaving, and then she's gone.
mistake writing editing
Make no mistake, the organizations website counsels. You will be writing a lot of crap. And thats a good thing. By forcing yourself to write so intensely, you are giving yourself permission to make mistakes. To forgo the endless tweaking and editing and just create. I am not the first person to point out that writing a lot of crap doesnt sound like a particularly fruitful way to spend an entire month, even if it is November.
towns small-town
Every small town that I had ever been to had had a caboose.
perfect kind made
Perfect love was that kind of love that made no sense but made everything else make sense somehow. It was raw and unscripted, turbulent and slightly unpredictable.
life-and-love mean drunk
Nonfiction brought me back to earth and sobered me up whenever it seemed like I'd become too drunk on the lives and loves of imaginary people, but that doesn't mean it was any less thrilling or transporting, although it was often more illuminating.
past haunting determined
The past is a very determined ghost, haunting every chance it gets.
war fighting journey
Life didn’t go how I had planned, but I couldn’t have planned a better life. Somewhere in between the beginning and eternity, I fought the war that we all must fight–the journey that in taking, forces us to come face to face with our own realities.