The business lessons I learned from my dad still resonate with me today.
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My pupils had never heard of The Beatles so I got snippets from my mum and dad.
As for my conscience, I can take a lesson from my dear old dad, who retreats to the same sound bite every time we argue about Social Security and Medicare.
And while pretty much all of my college tuition came from student loans and grants, my dad still paid his little teeny portion of his -- of it.
Now I was considering how hard it would be to move away from my home, my dad, my friends and family -- not knowing anyone or anything, possibly never being able to contact them because of the broken phone lines.
My mom, who is writing a memoir based on letters her dad sent back from WWII, works at the same roll-top desk my dad first used as an Assistant Professor at the University of Minnesota in the 1980s.
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"My dad was from the streets, and he had no idea how to be a parent, " said Junior.
My dad emigrated from Spain in the early 1970s and worked in construction.
It was my stepmother, Janey Hovenden, who really had the hardest time when my father was suffering from ALS. For three years, she juggled work, my dad and me with virtually no breaks, but she never gave up.
After watching both my dad and brother suffer from chronic allergies year-round, I was driven to find out why their symptoms persisted well past the pollen season.
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But I tell them, my dad was a Cubs fan from the time I was little.
My dad ran the two miles from Southgate station where he was on duty, having been told 'Hood Avenue's copped it'.
My grade-school principal, George Schumacher, and I "stole" my dad's Ford station wagon from our house in St.
"At home, my dad used to chant Telegu poems from forward to backward and backward to forward, that kind of thing, " Srinivas Mahankali said.
As my dad protectively drove us to and from school, the only places we could go to, I noticed the row of soldiers on the streets.
It came from the heart, and I think you touched on who my dad was more than some other people in basketball who had been around him for years.
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Emma was treated at the Royal Victoria Hospital and when the coroner John Leckey asked how her health was now, she replied "I have a few pains but as my dad would say, it's far from my heart".
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Many memories still live on but every time I walk through the arches of the City Chambers, often past demonstrators, I think of my dad standing there receiving his medal for bravery from the Lord Provost, and that he lived in the trenches, the medical treatment he received when he was shot up, and the life that he lived until his death.
My mom, sisters, and I got home from school and wondered why Dad had moved the stereo.
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My mom, who moved to New York from Iowa, was indifferent on race but wasn't about to challenge my dad's way of thinking.
Anna arrived thanks to a recommendation from Christina, a home aide who works in the independent living facility where my dad lives (so did my mom, until she died in August).
And when I found this booklet from our home in Sierra Leone, it gave me a lot of information about my dad.
No warning, no thinking that this might be emotional for a mother or dad to get through just an eruption from deep within me where my body literally shook.
While many of the events of that day have been mercifully blocked from my memory, one thing I remember quite vividly was a conversation I had with my dad.
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If that were the case, my Dad (and many just like him) would have thought that his employees were stealing from him.
Paul - It might be a long ways away from a real recording setup or the snazzy acoustics of a real studio, but the Line6 Toneport should get my dad a good start on those song recordings he's always been threatening to make.
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