Summer | Lea Geller

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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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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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Jul, 2014

The Long Road Home (if you moan about the Springsteen I WILL leave you on the side of the road.)

It’s never as much fun driving home. We are all a bit deflated. We have none of the anticipation that propelled our way out ……

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Jul, 2014

Canadia

Here we are in the far reaches of North America. When we lived out west people would ask me: What is the best thing to…

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Jun, 2014

Summertime and the living is BLOODY EXHAUSTING

Here are a few things I have learned in the three days of summer vacation we have had thus far: 1. If you let your…

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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…

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May, 2014

Spring Fever

I really am the happiest New Yorker. Every morning I say a little prayer of gratitude for getting to live here. (It took for 40…

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Aug, 2013

Seattle.

In the end, it was hard to leave. When the house you think of as this … … looks like this… It’s hard not to…

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Jul, 2013

Do Cossacks Eat Cranberry Sauce?

When we moved from Venice, California to Seattle seven and a half years ago, I went into a panic about all the things I was…