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Nervous breakdown isn’t a PC term, but can’t I use it just this once? It so perfectly describes my reaction to helping my parents lease a car this month. I was nervous and I seem to have had a fairly impressive breakdown during the onerous process.
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by Randi Kreiss
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2/17/11
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Last week I attended a lecture by George Will, the columnist who proudly claims, with only a modicum of hyperbole, that he hasn’t approved of a president since Calvin Coolidge. That’s how conservative he is.
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by Randi Kreiss
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2/11/11
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Maybe it would be more accurate to say she’s an English muffin, born to British parents who immigrated to Lake Havasu, Ariz., where they ran the fake English village exhibit at an amusement park.
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by Randi Kreiss
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1/27/11
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If you lived through the assassinations of President Kennedy, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy, then your heart and soul have been etched by public tragedy. Last week, that anxious, pit-in-the-stomach feeling grabbed hold when U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and 18 others were shot down in Tucson.
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by Randi Kreiss
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1/21/11
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My personal philosophy dictates that to deserve one’s days here on Earth, one must continue to learn. Of course, the turning of the year is the time when many of us resolve to improve ourselves in …
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Randi Kreiss
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1/17/11
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“Are we gonna be all kumbaya in the new Congress?” said Mr. Nasty, a.k.a. John McCain, the formerly sane senator from Arizona. Then, striking a pose with plenty of attitude, he snarled …
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Randi Kreiss
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1/17/11
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No one has time for anything anymore. Can’t get to the store; have to shop online. Can’t cook for the holiday; have to order in. Can’t write a thank-you note; have to send an e-mail. Can’t bake from scratch; have to buy a mix. Can’t get to the doctor; just skip it.
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by Randi Kreiss
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12/23/10
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He could be your son or mine . . . Perhaps you saw the photo of 24-year-old Bowe Bergdahl of Idaho posted on the Internet last week. Bergdahl, an American soldier, was taken prisoner by the Taliban in Afghanistan 18 months ago.
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by Randi Kreiss
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12/16/10
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Please don’t be giving me a ribbon-tied basket of assorted chocolates or a gift card for iTunes this season, not that there’s anything wrong with these products.
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by Randi Kreiss
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12/9/10
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Once upon a time (actually it was 1968, but it might as well have been once upon a time), my brand new husband and I traveled to Bermuda for our wedding trip. I wore the standard travel outfit: a dress and matching coat ensemble, white high heels, pastel gloves and a straw hat. My husband wore a sport coat; he carried his two favorite Swiss Army knives in his pocket and a fishing knife in his molded plastic carry-on.
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by Randi Kreiss
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12/2/10
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