Blog | Lea Geller

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Dec, 2015

Bright lights, Barbie and Bella Abzug Splashed Across My Chest (or Hannukah as Failed Feminist Mother)

I’d be lying if I said I didn’t want to be the kind of parent who does not buy presents for Hannukah. I would absolutely,…

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Dec, 2015

Bubble, Bubble…

I’m feeling pretty good today. I’m feeling good because I believe this is the first day in two weeks that someone in this house has…

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Nov, 2015

Back in the USSR (or, Life at Key Foods, North Bronx Edition.)

It’s that time of year again. I can basically assume that on any given day I will have at least one child at home, suffering…

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Oct, 2015

Garlic

I know this much to be true: 1. If you are a nine year old girl, you should NEVER prank your older brothers. 2. If…

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Oct, 2015

Unresolved.

This year I did NOT hastily make New Year’s Resolutions in the waning moments before Rosh Hashana. Why bother? I always make the same exact…

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Oct, 2015

Honey on my pillow.

We had a break-in here a little over a week ago. While we were sleeping, someone broke down a door a entered the house, even…

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Sep, 2015

Who are you calling saggy?

Mammograms are not particularly pleasant, but I’ve already written about that. Also in the unpleasant category- getting a letter from the breast imaging center informing…

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Aug, 2015

Not quite ready for my closeup….

http://abcnews.go.com/WhatWouldYouDo/video/humiliate-homeless-33398309 Remember when I walked right into an episode of ABC’s What Would You Do?? Here it is, at 3:23.

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Aug, 2015

Grape Expectations.

On holiday. There were so many beautiful, spectacular, moving sites – sunsets, happy children, rolling waves. But perhaps the most moving site was one I…

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Jul, 2015

Me on TV. (Or HOW I GOT FAMOUS ON THE JERSEY SHORE.)

M and I were on a mini break, sans enfants. But there was nothing mini about the monumental nature of a trip alone. We never…