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About Every Family's Got One

Barbara Herel is the founder and producer of Every Family's Got One. She is a writer and storyteller, wife and mother, and a recovering middle child. (You bet she has some stories to tell.) You can find her work in places like, Scary Mommy, Motherly, Adoptive Families, on page 135 in the anthology Tick Tock: Essays on Becoming a Parent After 40 (published by Dottir Press), and right here on Every Family’s Got One.

A Story About the Sports Fanatic and the Girl

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Robyn Chittister I’m pretty much a girl. Aside from the obvious physical definitions, I like girl things. Scrapbooking. Show tunes. Babies. As a child, I hated recess, preferring instead to read Danielle Steele. (I was a precocious youth.) I took tennis lessons, but playing basketball (badly) in junior high, I messed up my knee, to use a technical term, and that was the extent of my sports career. In high school, I was active in literary magazine and Drama club. So, imagine my surprise when I suddenly fell for... a bona fide [...]

2019-03-18T12:38:43-04:00February 27, 2019|Comments Off on A Story About the Sports Fanatic and the Girl
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A Story About Finding My Best Friend

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel   The dismissal bell sounded and the hallway instantaneously filled with the sights, smells, and the carryings-on of the cool, sort-of-cool, and not-so-cool tweens and teens of junior high. Hence the “smells.” (My 13-year-old self landed squarely in the middle of “sort-of” and I’m fairly certain I smelled AOK for the most part. My worst offense being: a heavy hand with the Jean Nate After Bath Splash.)  That’s when I saw her walking my way… Green-ribbed turtleneck, short sleeves Black and green plaid bell-bottomed pants Blue eyes   The blondiest of [...]

2019-11-18T11:38:33-05:00February 19, 2019|10 Comments
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A Story About a Friend Named Carol

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer-- Kathy Radigan In my time on this planet, I have had the good fortune to meet some amazing people and make a lot of good friends. Some have lasted beyond time and circumstance, while others have ended naturally after school, or a move or job change. A few ended painfully. But there is one friend... whose effect on me was so profound that I still think of her often. Carol and I were in the same afternoon kindergarten class. She was my ideal of what a girl should look and be like. Her [...]

2019-11-18T11:22:59-05:00February 13, 2019|1 Comment
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A Story About Confession and Being Catholic

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Barbara Herel Photo by ebeth photography Confession. Going to confession and fessing up to a priest... is there anything more terrifying to a 13-year-old Catholic girl? Just ask Barbara. She'll tell you.  You might be aware that Barbara Herel is a middle child from a loud, boisterous Long Island family. But did you know she also grew up as a nice Catholic girl going to Catechism classes and Sunday folk mass? Yes, the sacred life was good for Barbara. Until this happened to her during... confession. Here’s Barbara to explain [...]

2019-11-18T11:33:42-05:00February 6, 2019|4 Comments
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A Story About “Mr. Nice Guy”

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Tony Mennuto Tony Mennuto took to the stage performing "Mr. Nice Guy" in front of a lively and loving audience at the Cinema Arts Centre in Huntington, New York.  In his family... Tony went by the name ANT. Maybe it was because he was a tiny kid and could lift 100 times his weight.  Or maybe it was just short for Anthony. Now get ready to hear Tony tell us a story... about the other Tony in his family -- his dad. Who is actually called Tony, not ANT. And will be forever affectionately known as [...]

2019-03-18T12:42:16-04:00January 30, 2019|4 Comments
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A Story About Aging Parents

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Kate Mayer Photo by ebeth photography Aging Parents -- it's part of the circle of life. And, one that storyteller Kate Mayer has personal experience with.  Kate shares her touching and hilarious story... about helplessly watching her aging parents’ struggle with the loss of their “vast fortune” of odds and ends destroyed in a basement flood. As the oldest (and bossiest) sister of four girls, it’s little wonder that Kate swooped in to try and help her... aging parents out in a dire situation.   Here’s Kate, reading “Saving Bobbleheads from Drowning”... Kathryn [...]

2019-03-18T12:43:06-04:00January 23, 2019|4 Comments
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