Tag: role models
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Embracing Role Models Across Ages
As I walked off the elevator at the elementary school where I work, I crossed paths with some fourth graders. One of them was singing the chorus of a hit song from the early 1980’s by Elton John: “ðķI’m still standing better than I ever did.ðķ” I snapped my fingers, as I walked to the…
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A Different Kind of Hero
When his younger brother went off to war in 1942, my grandfather, a bookkeeper, became a reluctant cotton farmer. Their dad was unable to manage 160 acres by himself. So Raymond, my grandfather, came back home to help. Trading ledger books for leather gloves doesn’t sound like that big of a deal. But PaPaw, as…
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