Keyword: Randi Kreiss
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I’ve never met anyone who says, “I watch TV all day, and I especially love ‘The Real Housewives of New York City,’ ‘Jersey Shore’ and ‘The Biggest Loser.’ ” Most folks I know claim not to watch TV at all — not ever. Well, hardly ever. more
You know I don’t keep anything from you, so why should I start now? After 60-something years of remaining relatively intact — that is, keeping all my parts in place — I was told last week that my gallbladder must go. more
Anyone who’s read “Lord of the Flies” knows the great capacity children have for savagery. Still, the recent suicide of a 15-year-old high school girl, following months of brutal bullying, shocks us — hopefully into action. more
Anyone can have a change of heart and mind. Just after the health care reform bill passed last week, I realized the critics were right: Why should we provide insurance for 30 million uninsured … more
“This is what newspapers do best,” the judges of the New York Press Association’s Sharon R. Fulmer Award for Community Leadership said in conferring on the Merrick Herald the … more
There came a moment some 28 years into my marriage when I realized no one ever prepared me for living with another human being, in close quarters, for an open-ended amount of time. Naïve, you say? No, as a marriage veteran, I realized that it's a solid gold, mind-blowing miracle when a marriage lasts. No one is prepared for the challenges of the long haul. No one is counseled properly. No one can know what to expect. more
Please don’t tell me we are what we eat, because that would mean a guy I read about is actually a USB storage device. He was in the process of using a flash drive to steal information from an ATM when the cops broke in. He swallowed the device and had to give it up the hard way at the insistence of police. more
I don’t know how they do it, but the prognosticators at the Farmers’ Almanac were right again this winter. Back in August, they predicted a winter of “numbing cold” and “record-breaking” snow. more
In the unwritten political bible, it is said that there’s a time to speak out and a time to remain silent, a time to tear down and a time to build up, a time to stay and a time to go. Former Vice President Dick Cheney is speaking out and tearing down when he should remain silent. And clearly, his departure from the public scene is long overdue. more
"The name is Spenser, with an ‘s’, like the poet.” That’s how the detective introduced himself. The creation of author Robert B. Parker, Spenser (no first name) is featured in 37 novels, about half of them written by the prolific Cambridge-based writer. more
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