Word: heartbroken
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Suffice it to say, I was heartbroken. I had cost my team the win and had made a mistake when it counted most. Reflecting back upon my taste of infamy, I realized that screwing up in the glare of the spotlight is a common and, at times, tragic aspect of sports...
Last week the nation went through the sort of moment that is growing too familiar not only in content but also in the emotions it engenders. On the same day, one could feel heartbroken and fearful that one's children were in danger in their schools, and yet, also, that this is the way life goes these days, and who, after all, can do anything about it? If that attitude of inevitability prevails, some would say it answers the question "Who killed Kayla Rolland...
Certain jobs somehow lend themselves towards informal conversation. There's the hairdresser who blow-dries while discussing who's sleeping with whom, the bartender who consoles the heartbroken with a pint of Sammie, the J. Crew saleswoman who becomes your body-image consultants. Then, of course, there is the cabbie...
...glance it would be easy to conclude that the Columbine community is still shattered in pieces--angry, frightened, heartbroken. On the six-month anniversary of the shooting in October, a Columbine senior threatened to "finish the job" started by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, and hundreds of panicked parents kept their kids home from school. Some fired off angry letters saying that when it comes to the safety of their kids, the school is still "in denial." Two days later, Carla Hochhalter, the mother of Anne Marie, who was paralyzed in the April 20 shootings, walked into the Alpha Pawn...
...were heartbroken when she didn't come," Harvard Coach Kathy Delaney-Smith said. "She was a top recruit for us. I believe Harvard and the University of North Carolina were her final choices--I think even for a period of time, Harvard was her first choice...