Keyword: Randi Kreiss
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It nearly killed me. One of my grandkids said they “hate” books. They don’t read books except when one is assigned in school. Given the options of smartphones, TV and computers . . .
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1/7/21
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For me, the theme of 2020 has been waiting: learning to wait, summoning the B (balance), C (courage) and D (determination) that Type A’s struggle to find. If someone had told me in February . . .
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12/24/20
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I think sometime around the end of October, my husband and I ran out of things to say. Sitting across the dinner table from each other over plates of Costco soup and a homemade Greek salad with wimpy lettuce, our eyes met and . . .
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12/17/20
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In our family, we love our dogs wildly and too well. When my daughter adopted Grandma the dog as a little pup from her local Humane Society . . .
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12/10/20
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Half of me never wants to write or speak the name Trump again. Half of me wants to finish the work I started nearly four years ago . . .
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12/3/20
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The following is not a how-to for anyone else. It’s just my story. We all have to maneuver our way through the grinding deprivations of the coronavirus as best we can. We hadn’t seen the kids or grandkids for nine months . . .
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11/26/20
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Is anyone else thinking about the Berlin Airlift? It is one of the great stories of American audacity in the face of political thuggery. In case you’re too young to remember . . .
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11/19/20
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As we go to press, Major and Champ are heading to the White House. Apparently, Joe and Jill Biden will be moving in, too, on Inauguration Day, but the big news is that dogs are back in the people’s house.
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11/12/20
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My go-to source of comfort at this time of year is apples, particularly apples born and bred in New York state. One of the sweetest compensations for the end of summer and the turn toward winter . . .
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11/5/20
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When I was in third grade, Mrs. Heller told me I needed to grow an “elephant” skin because I cried when someone said something mean to me. So it was ironic to be an opinion writer in the time of Trump.
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10/29/20
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