Blog | Lea Geller

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Jun, 2018

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…

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May, 2018

Coffee + Seltzer =

May is hard. May is happy and sunny and here in NYC it’s even gotten warm (thank heavens, because I was on the verge of…

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Jan, 2018

Get your own knife rack, people.

We are planning a kitchen remodel. Recently, I was sitting in our kitchen with some of my teenage son’s friends. They were asking questions about…

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Jan, 2018

Naked runners and second place in-shape moms, unite!

I went to the gym today because I slipped on ice at the bottom of our driveway and was too sore to run. I got…

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Dec, 2017

Drip, Drip…

I wouldn’t necessarily call it a resolution, but this year I told myself I’d take one picture a week – specifically, a picture which encapsulates…

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Dec, 2017

Grinding… and the Corners of My Mind.

“It looks like you’re grinding your teeth at night,” said my dentist. “I assure you,” I said, knowingly. “I am not sleeping long enough or…

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Oct, 2017

Can you please take a picture of someone else and say it's me? (Or, how to panic about your author photo)

The good news is I wrote a book. The bad news is the publisher wants a photo of me. I hate photos of me. I…

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Oct, 2017

The Things I've Ignored

My incredibly big, thrilling, news is that I wrote a novel and it’s getting published. I’ve tried to think of ways to write those words,…