parenting | Lea Geller

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Apr, 2013

Weather karma.

Karma really is a bitch. While I was away from Seattle, spending ten very sunny days in Colorado, I checked Seattle weather obsessively. You see,…

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Apr, 2013

Home again, home again…

After a wonderful ten days in Colorado, we are home. Skiing was a success, even if day one nearly left me for dead. Turns out…

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Mar, 2013

Keystone Capers

At our Passover seder (meal), we were all tasked with bringing the one item that we would grab if like our ancestors, we were forced…

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Mar, 2013

I saw Eminem at the Pink Elephant.

Today I spoke to a friend, who lives in a hip city, with two kids. She told me she was taking her kids to a…

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Mar, 2013

Pope Fartocoles.

I was riveted by the machinations of the conclave that delivered the new pope to the world… a happening that will have virtually no impact…

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Mar, 2013

PMS and Boogers

I’m neither a doctor nor a scientist, but I am beginning to think that it’s entirely possible for a four year old girl to develop…

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Mar, 2013

Only in Seattle?

It’s not enough that they have to tatt up every square inch of their bodies, but the Seattle Times want Seattleites to take things one…

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Feb, 2013

Brain damage.

The bump on his forehead may have subsided, but his headaches did not, so I marched into the pediatrician’s office with Efram today to have…

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Feb, 2013

Will Mrs. Patmore Bake My Hamantaschen?

Purim is around the corner — the closest thing we Jews have to our own Halloween. We dress up, give out treats, and wait for…

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Feb, 2013

Fun With a Cervical Cap

Can anyone please tell me why someone thought that playground equipment designed like a cervical cap was a good idea? And even more pressing, why…