Keyword: Randi Kreiss
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Am I a card-carrying germaphobe? I’m getting there. As I edge toward full membership, watching the movie “Contagion” could well confer on me lifelong membership (unless, of course, I catch a cold from the person sitting behind me in the movie and die).
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9/22/11
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The most compelling stories about the terrorist attacks on America are fiction.
We were immersed last week in a cathartic wave of 9/11 media coverage, from the photo spread in Time magazine to …
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Randi Kreiss
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9/16/11
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Dear children:
This is what I wrote 10 years ago, in 2001, just days after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center:
“As I write this letter, you exist only as a hope for the …
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Randi Kreiss
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9/9/11
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We all have our dark side. Mine leads me between the covers of books that feature a fair amount of disappointing human behavior and sad examples of poor choices (sex and violence). I can say this in …
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By Randi Kreiss
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9/1/11
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Have you heard the joke going around?
“How can Obama ever get re-elected?”
“He can kill bin Laden again.”
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Randi Kreiss
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8/25/11
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What does it for you? Coffee? Gambling? Bombay Sapphire? Or, heaven forbid, are you hooked on stronger stuff, like Dove Bars?
I’ve always prided myself on having a nonaddictive personality. …
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Randi Kreiss
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8/18/11
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Time traveling has its risks. Last weekend, my sister and I visited our parents in Florida for a few days. You know those snake oil psychologists who say they can guide you back to the womb, should you care to go? I made the trip without their assistance last week, and it wasn’t pretty.
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Randi Kreiss
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8/11/11
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We sent in the Tea Party clowns, and they’re giving us quite a show. Of course, they are ably assisted by their associates in Congress, the president and the rest of those we hired to run our government for us. It’s hard to decide who belongs in the center ring, with so many deserving participants.
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8/4/11
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Sometimes you don’t need a scientific study to tell you an obvious truth. Last week, a small item in the Science section of The New York Times reported results of a Canadian research project aimed at determining if marital status affects how fast someone gets to the hospital after a heart attack.
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7/28/11
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Perseverance is a big deal in my husband’s family. You don’t quit, no matter how tough the challenge. Pick the cliché of your choice: Stay the course; dig in; when the going gets tough, the tough get going; anything worth doing is worth doing well. These mantras hum in the background of our lives.
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7/21/11
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