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When I sit across the table from someone who recounts a vignette or tells a family story beginning with the words, “Long story short …,” I feel an overwhelming desire to take a butter knife to my most accessible vein.
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By Randi Kreiss
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4/28/11
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I was thinking about spring cleaning this week, which I do every year at this time (think about it), and I realized that I’d prefer a more philosophical, let’s say cerebral, form of cleaning out the cobwebs.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/21/11
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Thus it came to be in the land of Brooklyn that Morris Brownstein knew Anna Brownstein, his second cousin, and they begot Hilda, Murray, Pearl and Zelda. Pearl, third in the family order, is my mother and the only one who seems to have entirely escaped the questionable legacy of having parents who are also blood relatives.
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Randi Kreiss
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4/14/11
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The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.
— Henry Van Dyke
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Randi Kreiss
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4/7/11
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In an educational culture where you pay big money to study Elvish and Klingon for college credit or take a course called “Knitting for Noobs” or sign up for a class titled “Stupidity,” is it really surprising that most college students don’t learn much during their four years at American institutions of higher learning?
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Randi Kreiss
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3/31/11
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The magnitude of the tsunami disaster in Japan trivializes anything on our news radar. The loss of so many fellow human beings in such a horrific, unpredictable tragedy simply blots out the sun.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/24/11
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Do you know anyone who took a fall recently? I know you do. Lots of people, it seems, especially in the over-50 crowd, are losing their footing and toppling down stairs or slipping from ladders or chairs or curbs.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/23/11
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The New York Times reported last week that three-quarters of the 17,500 freshman at City University of New York’s six community colleges require remedial classes in reading and writing and math.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/10/11
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Let’s start with a given: Today’s parents have no idea how to raise children. And if they did have an idea, they wouldn’t have time to exercise their parental prerogatives because they’re so busy working and making money.
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Randi Kreiss
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3/3/11
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We all know the observation about Fred Astaire, one of the greatest dancers of all time. It was said that Ginger Rogers, his partner, did everything Astaire did, except she did it backward and in high heels. For working women today, the sentiment holds true, but they aren’t just dancing.
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by Randi Kreiss
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2/24/11
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