She was a real lady my mother, she had come to teach in the island school and fell in love with my father.

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 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