Small towns in the Appalachian Mountains needed nurse-midwives and I went to a town called Truitt, my father's first name.

VOA: special.2009.02.14

I remember my father drove a bus and my mother was a waitress, and so we often didn't get to have Thanksgiving together.

VOA: special.2009.11.23

My father offered me a job as a trainee guide and I went into the bush.

VOA: special.2009.08.19

my mother said to me now, "but all we will miss you,your father and I."

VOA: special.2009.02.14

"My father left my family when I was two years old, and I was raised by a single mother who struggled at times to pay the bills and wasn't always able to give us things the other kids had.

VOA: special.2009.09.10

"Hurt and betrayal. I guess maybe a lot of the same emotions that my father felt because of what happened to him."

VOA: standard.2010.06.22

"And so around the table, morning and night, I heard my mother and father and my sister discussing events involving black treatment in America.

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

He is Ryan's father. "I was with my son the day he was born and I,unfortunately, had to be with my son in the hospital on the day he died.

VOA: standard.2010.06.24

"I was born and raised in Baltimore, where my father was mayor, and we were raised in a family that was devoutly Catholic, deeply patriotic, extremely proud of our Italian heritage, extremely proud of that, and in our case,staunchly Democratic."

VOA: standard.2010.05.11

And you're trying to deal with, 'Oh,my gosh,there's the war, and this friend of our family has been killed,' or 'Do I want to go to the prom?'" And then, walking with my Marine father, wounded Marine, that's why he wasn't active duty, walking with him,and here he's a football coach at Cal , so if we go to an athletic event, there would be people painting their signs over in a corner of the parking lot or something and I'd be walking along and I'd be thinking that it was my job to protect my dad from the protesters.

VOA: standard.2010.05.31