New York City | Lea Geller

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Aug, 2014

The Wall

On Wednesday of this week I hit the Wall, the Wall of exhaustion, hunger, dehydration, housework, meal-making, snack-making, fight-breaking, and sheer fedupness that is summer.…

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Aug, 2014

New Doors

We are all here in the house now. Everyone is home and all the beds have been assembled, so people even have a place to…

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Aug, 2014

The Return

The boys returned from camp today. It’s wonderful to have them back even if one of them made it through his seven hour bus ride…

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Aug, 2014

The cleanest bowl in NYC.

It is incredibly hard to move when one does not, as a matter of principle, believe in the heavy lifting of things. Still, I soldier…

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Aug, 2014

Stupid Little Bags

I love bags. By bags I don’t mean purses, I mean bags, tote bags. Sometimes I love the free ones, sometimes I love the ones…

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Aug, 2014

Love Me, Love My Van.

Usually I get stopped twice a month by a man in a car offering to fix the dings in my minivan. It is usually in…

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Jul, 2014

Up in Yonkers.

This week I went to apply for my NY driver’s license. I don’t remember much about getting my license in Seattle but I appear to…

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Jul, 2014

Anchors Away (#parenthood)

Just put the boys on a Ferry to visit friends. Alone. Gulp. Sometimes I am overcome by: A. A desire to have them out of…

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Jun, 2014

The Mad Summer Dash (or Why I Hate the Apple Store)

This is the week in between school and EVERYTHING ELSE. It’s technically summer — school has ended, June 21st has been and gone, and here…

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Jun, 2014

How It's Done (Summerlution Update)

You may be wondering how I am going to achieve Summerlution Number One (getting my kids to clear their breakfast plates). Easy. For this, I…