"I hope it comes through on television how much I enjoy calling the sport of hockey.
As a supervisor at a preventive services agency in Queens, I cannot tell you how much I appreciate your calling needed attention to the serious problem of New York City's plan to reduce the budget for preventive services.
He didn't come no matter how much I begged him or called his house, no matter how often our counseling staff met with the student or his mother.
Instead, the literature courses caught my attention and I found how much I loved Walt Whitman calling out with his "barbaric yawp" to a nation, Ovid's poetry of mythic transformation, and Shakespeare's characters letting us know "There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy".
I've mentioned how much I like the zombies in Call of Duty's Blackout battle royale mode.
For some reason, I am reminded of how much I love its cover art, which calls to mind the fantastic tracks "No Child of Mine" and "Last Song".
If you only knew how hard I studied, how many hours I spent in school, and how much I actually know, only to be called names or belittled by those who don't understand the work that I do.
But those last six months, that all changed, it was no holds barred, and when I was grieving so much because I knew how much I'd miss him, I got a call from a friend that put it in all perspective.
I called them both over and put my arms around them and said how much I loved them," he said.
Although I will never go so far as to call cancer a gift, not being able to work has not only taught me how much I want to work, but also how much I want to do work that matters.
