As my father used to say, though, discretion is the better part of valor.
I'm very happy to have him as my father, even just a short time.
And to top it all off, just as my father promised, life is better than I ever could have imagined.
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As my father reminded me many times when we embarked on Wednesday, there were only a couple of flights per week.
As my father's daily routine suggests, even a small town's sidewalk culture can be a rich source of belonging and community.
Lifestyle, music, art, fashion: I am so excited to extend myself behind the scenes as a designer, and as my father puts it, finally have a real job.
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As my father sidled our car closer and my sisters and I pressed our noses to the window to try to see, the limo's tinted electric window slid down.
There are many who have criticised me for being what they call a poster girl for the army - very flattering to be seen as a poster girl for anything at this time of life - but I think the truth is I am very fond of the army, because I always thought of it as my father's army.
"I can't talk about episodes of PTSD nearly as well with my father as I can with Tom because I feel Tom can relate, " says Cpl.
He also benefited from low capital gains tax rates on the homes and stocks he bought and sold in his lifetime, as did my father (also the owner of a small butcher store), and as have I.
As my late father, a family physician, always warned, all in moderation.
It is my job as a father to keep my children safe so I am proud these lessons have stuck in their minds, especially given that these lessons were not so prevalent in my day.
As a young child, I loved going to late drive-in movies with my father as we waited for my mother to get off her third shift job.
My first encounter with North Africa was as a child, when my father told fascinating, if unnerving, tales from his wartime stops in Casablanca, Algiers, and Oran in 1943, courtesy of the U.S. Air Force, but I had never been there myself.
As an assistant manager, my father could soon be making seventy-five dollars a week and over the coming years as much as a hundred a week, a fortune in 1939 to people with our expectations.
As Chris said, my father left my family when I was two years old.
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As for stinginess, my father was almost painfully parsimonious.
Shea is whooping it up with my father as 19-year-old phenom Dwight Gooden whiffs 12 Dodgers one night in 1984, the "K Corner" patrol in the left field upper deck acknowledging each one with a sign.
In the few weeks that I spent with my father as a child -- he came to visit me for about a month when I was young -- one of the things he did was to take me to my first jazz concert, in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1971, and it was a Dave Brubeck concert. (Laughter and applause.) And I've been a jazz fan ever since.
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As I mentioned earlier, my father left my family when I was two years old.
As a side note, my father gave Michael Bloomberg early advice when he was starting up his company.
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It was this sort of death that I was determined to press upon my father, as he did his dying.
My stepdad was a Marine and served three tours in Vietnam, and my father retired as a major from the Army Reserves after 24 years.
And my father, as usual, was right.
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As was the case that night, my father would often buy me an ice cream cone at a nearby custard stand on Okalahoma Avenue as a gratuity for my patience while I waited in the car and he shopped.
And I share this often -- as many of you know, my father was a blue-collar worker at the city water plant.
As many of you -- my father was a pump operator at the city water plant, and neither of my parents had a college degree.
And then finally, as a father, one of my highlights of every day is asking my daughters about their day, their hopes and their futures.
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