Download or read book My FatherS Shoes written by Raymond F. Vennare and published by Argo-Navis. This book was released on 2013-05-28 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: My Father’s Shoes is, at its core, an anthology of short stories. The book is allegoric and the shoes are metaphoric. Unlike most anthologies, however, these stories are an amalgam of themselves. They integrate and coalesce. There is a rhythm and a cadence both in substance and in form. This book was initially written as a gift to my father. I wanted to share certain memories with him that were meaningful and lasting. I wanted him to know, from my perspective, just how important he was in my life. He never really understood the profound impact that he had on the lives of other people -especially his family. Because of that humility, or perhaps in honor of it, I wanted to him know that he truly made a difference in this world. As others read the manuscript they seemed to recognize something of themselves in these stories. A memory. A passage. An incident. A feeling. As they did I became more comfortable with sharing these vignettes of family life. In the end this book is really more about me than my father. But, even more than that, it is about appreciating every circumstance in life however mundane or unremarkable it may seem at the time. These seemingly discrete and unrelated moments actually define who you are, what you become and what matters most in life. At least they did for me. My father always used to say, senza memoria vita non esiste, which in Italian means, 'without memory life does not exist.' These are my memories and this is my inheritance. Raymond F. Vennare While dedicating a significant and successful portion of his life and career to business, entrepreneurship and science, Raymond’s essential orientation is humanistic. He is exquisitely aware of the inter-relatedness of all things. This ability to intrinsically see and understand how disciplines overlap and coincide is Raymond’s distinctive gift. He is at home in the intersections of business, culture, art and science, and uses interconnectedness as a catalyst for finding novel ways to forge bonds across disciplines and solve human problems. Raymond has always been driven to express his way of seeing the commonalities of the world. This is reflected in the lifelong diversity and range of his pursuits; through his work as an academically trained art historian, ethicist and businessman and as a multi-disciplinary artist -- painter, writer, musician, and commentator. His current artistic offering is a richly textured memoir, My Father’s Shoes, which he is also adapting for stage and audio performance. This vibrant anthology celebrates the capacity of one person to make a lasting difference in the lives of others. With humorous reflection, clanking dishes, wafting aromas, and loving tenderness, it vividly reminds us how we ultimately transfer our human energy trough the stories and memories we create and leave behind. There isn’t one ounce of fat in Vennare’s writing. Every story is a journey, every sentence a complete thought. This book is not just a good read ... this is Benediction. --Frank Ferraro, Filmmaker and Playwright I feel like I know these people, and I care about them and the vivid way they lived. Vennare’s courage in the act of remembering his father’s life, and revealing his own, is an invitation to all of us to find a way to pass on the stories and memories we hold most dear. --Karen Kern, Writer My Father's Shoes is a wonderful trip down memory lane. With each chapter read, the pages penned touched my heart and resonated with personal stories of my own family members. The book is a one shoe fits all narrative. --Lillie Leonardi, Author, In the Shadow of a Badge

Download or read book Inside My Father s Shoes written by Michael Nations and published by . This book was released on 2017-06-03 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Where s My Shoes written by Brenda Avadian and published by 1st Impression Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explains the history of the rodeo, important rodeo figures, and different kinds of rodeos.

Download or read book My Father s Shoes written by Tom Speer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 95 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In My Father s Shoes written by Dan Whisenhunt and published by . This book was released on 2018-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In My Father S Shoes written by Manuel Davila Sr. and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2017-12-29 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the heart of a father crosses paths with the honor of a badge, the bloodline is sacrificed for love, respect, family, power, and greed. Meet the most powerful man to ever walk the streets of New York City. Street name Lefty, his net worth exceeds more than one hundred million. To keep it, all he has to do is eliminate the one person standing in his way his father. Take the ride as you flip through the pages of In My Fathers Shoes. This is a heart-pounding, fast-paced, end-to-end journey of a father and son looking to uncover their differences in respect, love and principals. Hang on as they both scramble to stay in touch within their own world. Unfold the drama and the untold story of the hard-core streets of New York. Get on board and hold on to your seat as you are taken on a roller-coaster ride like never before...

Download or read book Dreams from My Father written by Barack Obama and published by Crown. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 463 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • ONE OF ESSENCE’S 50 MOST IMPACTFUL BLACK BOOKS OF THE PAST 50 YEARS In this iconic memoir of his early days, Barack Obama “guides us straight to the intersection of the most serious questions of identity, class, and race” (The Washington Post Book World). “Quite extraordinary.”—Toni Morrison In this lyrical, unsentimental, and compelling memoir, the son of a black African father and a white American mother searches for a workable meaning to his life as a black American. It begins in New York, where Barack Obama learns that his father—a figure he knows more as a myth than as a man—has been killed in a car accident. This sudden death inspires an emotional odyssey—first to a small town in Kansas, from which he retraces the migration of his mother’s family to Hawaii, and then to Kenya, where he meets the African side of his family, confronts the bitter truth of his father’s life, and at last reconciles his divided inheritance. Praise for Dreams from My Father “Beautifully crafted . . . moving and candid . . . This book belongs on the shelf beside works like James McBride’s The Color of Water and Gregory Howard Williams’s Life on the Color Line as a tale of living astride America’s racial categories.”—Scott Turow “Provocative . . . Persuasively describes the phenomenon of belonging to two different worlds, and thus belonging to neither.”—The New York Times Book Review “Obama’s writing is incisive yet forgiving. This is a book worth savoring.”—Alex Kotlowitz, author of There Are No Children Here “One of the most powerful books of self-discovery I’ve ever read, all the more so for its illuminating insights into the problems not only of race, class, and color, but of culture and ethnicity. It is also beautifully written, skillfully layered, and paced like a good novel.”—Charlayne Hunter-Gault, author of In My Place “Dreams from My Father is an exquisite, sensitive study of this wonderful young author’s journey into adulthood, his search for community and his place in it, his quest for an understanding of his roots, and his discovery of the poetry of human life. Perceptive and wise, this book will tell you something about yourself whether you are black or white.”—Marian Wright Edelman

Download or read book Walking in My Father s Shoes Vol 2 written by Albert Houston and published by . This book was released on 2015-12-23 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When it comes to love and life boys learn so much from their fathers, these are poems and prose from lessons to becoming a man. Fathers are the examples whether good of bad of what their sons can be or shouldn't be. I am proud of the lessons my father gifted me. Shoes are not the end all be all but if the shoe fits...

Download or read book My Dad Wears Pirate Shoes written by Gae Hall and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 13 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A young boy struggles to understand his father's cross-dressing habit and eventual transsexual transition.

Download or read book Father s Rubber Shoes written by Yumi Heo and published by Scholastic. This book was released on 1995 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Yungsu misses Korea terribly until he begins to make friends in America.

Download or read book My Father s Tears written by John Updike and published by Random House. This book was released on 2009-06-02 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A sensational collection of stories of the American experience from the Depression to the aftermath of 9/11, by one of the most gifted American writers of the twentieth century and the author of the acclaimed Rabbit series. John Updike mingles narratives of Pennsylvania with stories of New England suburbia and of foreign travel: “Personal Archaeology” considers life as a sequence of half-buried layers, and “The Full Glass” distills a lifetime’s happiness into one brimming moment of an old man’s bedtime routine. High-school class reunions, in “The Walk with Elizanne” and “The Road Home,” restore their hero to youth’s commonwealth where, as the narrator of the title story confides, “the self I value is stored, however infrequently I check on its condition.” Exotic locales encountered in the journeys of adulthood include Morocco, Florida, Spain, Italy, and India. The territory of childhood, with its fundamental, formative mysteries, is explored in “The Guardians,” “The Laughter of the Gods,” and “Kinderszenen.” Love’s fumblings among the bourgeoisie yield the tart comedy of “Free,” “Delicate Wives,” “The Apparition,” and “Outage.”

Download or read book Dancing on My Father s Shoes written by Guideposts and published by Ideals Publications. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many a little girl learned to dance by placing her feet atop her father’s shoes as he twirled her around the floor-adding rythmic “one, two, tree, four.” This collection of true first-person stories will bring a tear to the reader’s eyes and make the perfect gift for Father’s Day (or for any father anytime). There are stories of infinite patience when dad takes his son fishing and watches his favorite fishing rod go to the bottom of the lake. Fathers are bankers, teachers, dreamers-and some are like the fireman dad whosaved another man’s child on Father’s Day. Some fathers are misunderstood thier whole lives, only to be appreciated when their children gow up. Each sotry in this book is a celebration of that special person-Dad.

Download or read book My Father s Shop written by Satomi Ichikawa and published by Kane/Miller Book Publishers. This book was released on 2006 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a rug in his fathers shop that Mustafa loves. (It has a hole in it, so you can put it over your head and still see out.) No one else wants the rug, though lots of tourists visit the shop. His father always welcomes them"Bienvenue"and offers them tea"O cha wa ikaga desu ka?" Mustafas father would like him to know some words in other languages too, and he tells Mustafa that he may have the rug if he agrees to learn. But after the first lesson, Mustafa is so bored he runs out of the shop (with the carpet on his head). Ending up at the market, he finds a very different way of learning foreign languages....and of getting tourists to visit his fathers shop.

Download or read book My Fathers Shoes written by Richard Kinard and published by . This book was released on 2016-12-21 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: She just walked away leaving me standing in the middle of the room. My father's office as she referred to it. I could never understand why she kept the door locked and the room dusted. My father has been gone as far back as I can remember. She keeps this room kept as if he would walk in and sit behind the desk. I looked around. Hanging on the walls were newspaper clippings and pictures of family. Setting around on book shelves and tables were plaques and trophies. I sat behind the desk. I could feel what my father was portraying when he set this office up. One of both pride, and sadness. The room was in dark colors and as I look around, it was divided. On one side was all the sports stuff, on the other family. In one part of the room in a corner, there under a soft light what looked to be photo album sealed in shrink wrap. I crossed the room and started to pick it up.

Download or read book In My Father s Shoes written by Regina Gladmon and published by . This book was released on 2010-04-15 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book In My Father s Country written by Saima Wahab and published by Crown. This book was released on 2012 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Relates the author's decision, years after her father was taken away by the KGB, to relocate to her uncle's home in America, where she pursued an education and worked as an interpreter before becoming a cultural adviser for the U.S. Army.

Download or read book Not My Father s Son written by Alan Cumming and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-10-07 with total page 207 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Equal parts memoir, whodunit, and manual for living . . . a beautifully written, honest look at the forces of blood and bone that make us who we are, and how we make ourselves.” --Neil Gaiman In his unique and engaging voice, the acclaimed actor of stage and screen shares the emotional story of his complicated relationship with his father and the deeply buried family secrets that shaped his life and career. A beloved star of stage, television, and film—“one of the most fun people in show business” (Time magazine)—Alan Cumming is a successful artist whose diversity and fearlessness is unparalleled. His success masks a painful childhood growing up under the heavy rule of an emotionally and physically abusive father—a relationship that tormented him long into adulthood. When television producers in the UK approached him to appear on a popular celebrity genealogy show in 2010, Alan enthusiastically agreed. He hoped the show would solve a family mystery involving his maternal grandfather, a celebrated WWII hero who disappeared in the Far East. But as the truth of his family ancestors revealed itself, Alan learned far more than he bargained for about himself, his past, and his own father. With ribald humor, wit, and incredible insight, Alan seamlessly moves back and forth in time, integrating stories from his childhood in Scotland and his experiences today as a film, television, and theater star. At times suspenseful, deeply moving, and wickedly funny, Not My Father’s Son will make readers laugh even as it breaks their hearts.