Tag Archives: Randy Fitzgerald
April 10th, 2013

New BOOMER Brings the Heat!

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Each year, we look for our April-May issue to tear you, our readers, from the frigid claws of Winter. Because we know — God, do we know — how ready you are for the sunshine.  So in town, at Martin’s, Kroger, Wawa or at tons of doctors’ offices and CVS Pharmacies in between, grab your [...]

March 1st, 2013

Column — The Recognition Problem

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If you’ve met her, there’s a good chance my wife won’t know your face – BY RANDY FITZGERALD –    Some years ago Barb and I were invited to a party at a neighbor’s house during a summer when the neighborhood had been victimized by a series of home burglaries. When we arrived at the [...]

January 2nd, 2013

Just Say Yes

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May as well do everything in retirement; we can rest when we die – RANDY FITZGERALD –    When I retired back in May, I got two excellent pieces of advice from a couple of really smart friends. One said that for the first six months after I retired, I should turn down everything that [...]

October 3rd, 2012

‘The Day the People Took the Campaign Back’

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  The ’92 presidential debate at the University of Richmond – making Bush I, Clinton and Perot answer to regular citizens – was a game changer. Two decades later, two organizers look back on history from the inside.   — BY RANDY AND BARBARA FITZGERALD —      Twenty years ago, on Oct. 15, 1992, [...]

August 13th, 2012

My Own Time Machine

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I’ve already seen more than I ever thought I would When I was a teenager in the 1950s, I never expected to make it to the turn of the century. Born a few weeks after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, I thought stepping into the 2000s at the age of 58 would be an impossible [...]