Blog | Lea Geller

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Sep, 2018

Outdoor Instant Pot! (Or What to Do When You Find Out You’re Never Going to Have a Kitchen.)

First came to brisket in the outdoor slow cooker. Today, I borrowed an instant pot from my friend R., and I’m christening it outside on…

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Sep, 2018

Brisket in the Rain

Because the kitchen renovation has me making toast in one room, coffee in another, and eggs in a third, this is where I plug in…

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Sep, 2018

Black Coffee In Bed.

Our ground floor is a construction site. Sort of. A group of men came in, demolished two thirds of the floor, ripped out our kitchen,…

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Sep, 2018

This is the trailer we pee in.

I don’t know what took me so long. Because we have a barely functioning ground floor and a garden party bat mitzvah happening tomorrow, we…

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Aug, 2018

Nobody was ever so excited to see a dumpster.

I came home from an early run to find this in our very narrow driveway.For some reason, I keep referring to this as a skip,…

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Aug, 2018

Everything Must Go (Or, why it pays to have a pogrom in your DNA.)

After months of waiting, crying in the building department, and all but offering myself up to the gods of Yonkers (because, surely there is more…

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Aug, 2018

What Pics Won’t Tell You: Traveling Sucks.

I am traveling. M is with me. I’m going to spare you details and annoying pics (because, why?), but I’ll share my current revelation: I…

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Jun, 2018

Flirting in Yonkers.

Our kitchen is in Yonkers.** Because we want to renovate our kitchen, we need approval from the Yonkers Building Department. (Even now, it is hard…

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May, 2018

Fortunately, I didn’t eat the maggot poop.

I got a little braggy on Instagram and posted a picture of my chard recently. My punishment for my garden-bragging is usually the ridicule of…

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May, 2018

I’ll Get You Karma, and Your Little Dog, Too.

The biggest problem in my marriage is this: once a month (or thereabouts), M knocks over a giant glass of water which rests on his…