Blog | Lea Geller

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Jan, 2021

As I’ve written here before, when the going gets tough, I dream about Nazis. This week, on the heels of what amounted to a full…

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Dec, 2020

The Winter of Broken Eggs and Other Things

Last week I found a cracked egg on my doorstep. Turns out the chickens had escaped early one morning (probably because we forgot to close…

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Nov, 2020

The Waiting Game

Apparently all I am getting from nine of the world’s hungriest and laziest chickens is 1-2 eggs a day. That’s it. I waited forever for…

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Oct, 2020

LAY SOMETHING ALREADY!

These chickens have one job, and it’s not to crap all over my outdoor furniture. Four months in and there have been bags and bags…

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Jun, 2020

And here we still are… (notes from a quarantine/curfew/the longest summer of my entire adult life.)

Obviously, we are all still where we are, which is where we have all been since early March and THAT is the most philosophical I…

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May, 2020

Two months and I’ll be damned if I’m gonna hot-wax myself to the floor. (Grooming Notes from the Great Quarantine.)

A note about the home grooming. It’s been well-over two months since anyone other than me has been involved in my upkeep. My appearance may…

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Apr, 2020

Nightmares, Jello, and other notes from a Quarantine.

You would not know it from reading these pages, but I was doing alright. I mean, there were periods of rage, bewilderment and sheer what-the-fuckery…

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Apr, 2020

And then we lost power. Dayenu. (Notes from a Quarantine.)

We were muddling along here. We made it through the Passover cleaning and Passover prep, two seders and four of the eight days of Passover…

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Mar, 2020

Chickens, Bearded Ladies and Other Hazards of Staying Put (More Notes from a Quarantine.)

While going out has it risks at the moment, staying home is not without its own hazards. Here are a few I’d be on the…

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Mar, 2020

Where to Hide the Eggs, Cutting Up Your Summer Pants for Toilet Paper and other things not do in when trapped in a house with your nearest and dearest. (More notes from the Great Quarantine.)

I’ve shared some basic rules of quarantine, but what you really need to know is that to NOT do. Do not spray brunette dry shampoo…