1.   My mother taught me how to cook.

2.   I watched, astounded, as a lean, hungry mother taught her cub how to hunt.

3.   Although she probably did not intend to, my mother taught me about Advent and waiting.

4.   And my mother taught me her craft, although I never was as accomplished as she, nor as patient.

5.   As he grew, his mother secretly taught him Jewish ways.

6.   Because his mother taught at the arts-oriented Potomac School in Washington, he was able to spend six happy years there.

7.   Before retiring, his mother taught school in the Bronx and his father was an orthodontist.

8.   But Earnest stayed out of trouble, channeling into sports the determination his mother had taught him.

9.   But my mother also taught me to maintain a sense of humor and learn to laugh at myself.

10.   But this was the way her mother had taught her, she wrote, and she had taught her daughters and granddaughters.