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The Accidental Oenophile
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Barbara Kay, National Post ยท Wednesday, Aug. 18, 2010 Recently friends invited my husband Ronny and me and another couple to dinner at their upscale tennis club. Upon our arrival we were informed ... Wednesday, 18 August 2010 -
So I married a serial shopper
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... by no means a cheapskate in general, my husband Ronny occasionally suffers from a syndrome I call Bargain Ultramundane Yearning (BUY). He is also the impulsive type. Add to BUY and impetuosity a large ... Wednesday, 05 August 2009 -
Let the (Jewish) games begin
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... stand between Jews and the innocence of the authentically playful spirit. Our family attended the 1997 Maccabiah Games. My daughter competed in the triathlon and my husband, Ronny, played in the Masters ... Wednesday, 08 July 2009 -
Fat, and getting fatter (National Post, May 27, 2009)
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... two months ago, blood tests revealed my husband Ronny, whose junk food habits petrified in adolescence, was, without a radical change to his high-fat, high-sugar diet, diabetes-bound. These three food ... Wednesday, 27 May 2009 -
An Accidental Journalist (National Post April 29, 2009)
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... an early bird), I take in the empty stoop with a quite irrationally intense surge of vexation. On weekdays, my night owl husband Ronny and I apply our respective natural bio-rhythms ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Smiling at Twilight (National Post November 7, 2008)
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... won't plateau or reverse itself at this stage of the game -- my husband Ronny gloomily mutters an expression picked up from a military friend: "They're shooting at our regiment." Lately the shelling ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Copenhagen Feels Like Home. St. Petersburg? Not so Much (National Post June 11, 2008)
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... Dr Pepper warm." Funny. And yet it spoke to me ? My husband Ronny and I know that we should want to visit places as disparate as possible from Canada. But our low tolerance ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Married to the life aquatic (National Post March 19, 2008)
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Barbara Kay, National Post Published: Wednesday, March 19, 2008 'Love me, love my dog:" That's the story of my marriage to Ronny. Our dog's health, comfort ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Irwin Cotler, 44 years later (National Post March 5, 2008)
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... on man-pleasing recipes and my studies (in that order, if memory serves). While I cooked and read novels without a care in the world as to where my graduate degree might lead, my husband Ronny prepared ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Happy Valentine's Day. Don't forget the pepperoni (National Post February 14, 2007)
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... down an exorbitant tip. My husband Ronny exhibits something of the same dualism -- bold free market businessman, masochistic diner -- but while my father was a compliant hostage across the ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Anaphylaxis of evil: ALLERGY WEEK (National Post, September 26, 2006)
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... like peas -- legumes and allergies to one often implies sensitivity to the other. This was borne out in an odd way on a family trip to Arizona when Jonny was about 17. The four of us -- my husband Ronny ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Anaphylaxis of evil (Nationa Post, September 26, 2006) </h2>
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... us -- my husband Ronny and I, daughter Joanne and son Jonny -- ate dinner at a BBQ chicken franchise whose proudly advertised singularity was its use of mesquite wood instead of charcoal. We all ate ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Take my dog, please (National Post, August 16,2006)
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... of that suspicion. Polo is a yellow Labrador retriever, the beloved late-life "child" of my husband Ronny, for whom owning a dog until he shuffles off this mortal coil somehow emerged as a non-negotiable ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
A life without schwarma (National Post, March 15, 2006)
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My husband Ronny waves a Wall Street Journal clipping at me, exhibiting the smug expression that can mean only one thing: Somebody in authority has proven me wrong on one of his alleged shortcomings. ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
This time, I'm not the mom (National Post, November 3, 2005)
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Ronny comes home from a walk with Polo, and indignantly reports that a neighbour has asked him, "Aren't you a little old for a new puppy?" I agree with my husband that this is, although pertinent, an "age-ist" question. ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
Make him buy the cow (National Post, October 5, 2005)
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My husband enjoys telling people how he "proposed" marriage to me. Ronny was from Montreal but working in Toronto at the time. It was 1964. I was in my last undergrad year of university. After we'd dated for ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
In praise of unilingualism (National Post, May 04, 2005)
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... I remind myself that there are many others -- amongst them serial language migrants like my husband, Ronny -- for whom the nuances of mother tongue as well as those acquired prove elusive. Their stories are ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
The wrong town for bargain hunting (National Post, March 09, 2005)
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... York. Although keen for sun and sand himself, my husband, Ronny, magnanimously agreed. Ronny is a late but enthusiastic convert to the magic of the Internet. What rocks his world is easy access to fluid, ... Saturday, 02 August 2003 -
'Stop, Steve!' -- and other naming conundrums (National Post, June 2, 2004)
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... who spoke pidgin English as "Thief, Thief." Steven became Ronny. As I write this, I am a 24-hour-old grandmother of a beautiful baby girl. Her name is Alexa. A-lex-a. It's different, but ... Saturday, 02 August 2003