Word: fatherness
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...It’s hard to be an artist,” Louie said, telling the audience that her father was a painter so she had plenty of exposure to the artistic lifestyle. Unhappy with Economics, however, she switched over to the Humanities track and became an East Asian Languages and Civilizations concentrator with a focus on Chinese film and literature. She enjoyed her new concentration much more, and as a consequence, also performed very well academically. “It taught me to think critically, articulate, and analyze a text,” Louie said...
John Henry F. Hinkel: The story is about a father of three, Richard Young, who gets diagnosed with testicular cancer. The film takes place in the week leading up to his surgery. It follows his attempts—and failures—to repair the relationships with his kids and wife, who basically think he’s a dick. The film is a comedy though, and there aren’t necessarily a lot of films that take cancer and comedy and put them together...
...much like the average person's, my father being who he was, but it certainly provided a foundation and a guiding light for us. There was always really good gospel playing. No matter where you went in the house, there was always music. My father was also studying to be a theologian, and he had classes from time to time in the home. Other ministers would come in, and so we had to tone it down. That's what was going on in the house: the Word and a lot of music...
...tuition. "A lot of parents use their kids' college money," says Craig. Its prohibitively high cost makes the place inaccessible to many Americans who could benefit, especially since the highest obesity rates are found in low-income areas. But Wellspring kids are far from wealthy. Fedorchalk's mother and father, who work at a nursing home and Walmart, respectively, struggle to pay the bill. Freddy Fahl, 16, attends the school courtesy of a several-thousand-dollar student loan taken out by his mother Debi DeShon. (See TIME's special report on paying for college...
Nonetheless, I played along when Kudrow had Ancestry.com look up my family history. I found out through the 1930 Census that my father's father's parents paid $45 a month for a one-room New York City apartment for six people and they were the only ones on the block without a radio. My great-grandmother, when asked what country she grew up in, wrote "Poland," crossed it out and then wrote "Austria." These are countries that don't even border each other. I come from stupid people. You know how I know that? Because I had to look...