There is a memorable scene in Mary Karr’s memoir, “The Liar’s Club.” It really was a dark and stormy night in the down-and-dirty town of Port Arthur, Texas, when little Mary and her baby …
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Randi Kreiss
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7/14/10
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President Obama and his family are heading to Martha’s Vineyard for a vacation. It’s a pretty straightforward concept. The man with the most challenging and stressful job in the world is taking a …
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Randi Kreiss
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7/7/10
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All I wanted to do was sign up for Netflix. Again. I used to be a Netflix member, but somehow there came a time when I got a DVD movie from them in the mail and I forgot to return it for two years. This is the kind of lapse that sometimes aggravates my husband.
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Randi Kreiss
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7/1/10
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Even though multitasking is king, there are so many things we can’t do at the same time: drink a martini and ride a roller coaster, text and take a shower, watch a movie and mow the lawn, run a marathon and flip pancakes.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/24/10
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We Americans know some things about ourselves. It’s part of our narrative. We are winners. We are optimists. We have a “can do” attitude that allows us to smite our enemies and solve our problems. We invent things, fix things and help others.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/20/10
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It’s not that I have anything against Mexico; love the country; love the people. It’s just that I would like to edge the state of Texas over the border and out of America.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/14/10
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I hate being an opening act, but in the medical adventures of my family, I cop to being the second banana. The first banana, no disrespect intended, is my husband.
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Randi Kreiss
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6/3/10
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Crude oil pours into the Louisiana wetlands, Taliban operatives target Times Square, the stock market swoons into a dead faint and Tea Party favorite Rand Paul says on national TV that he’s not so crazy about the Civil Rights Act of 1964.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/30/10
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According to official reports, six American soldiers were killed during the first two weeks of this month in Afghanistan, casualties of Operation Enduring Freedom.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/20/10
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Life imitates art, so to me, the recent xenophobic rants against foreigners seem to jump right off the pages of “The Lazarus Project,” an award-winning novel by Aleksandar Hemon.
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Randi Kreiss
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5/14/10
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