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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 a Deep Bond with Grandpa

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Lisa Leshaw Photo by ebeth photography Can anything compare to the deep bond between grandparent and grandchild? We don't think so!  Speaking from her heart about the deep bond and otherworldly experience she shared with her Grandpa Ben, Lisa enchanted our Every Family's Got One audience with her heartfelt story.  Here’s a fun fact about Lisa... She should have been named Liza after Liza Minnelli. However, the powers that be mistakenly wrote an S on her birth certificate instead of a Z! But actually these days Lisa's favorite name is Grandma. And [...]

2019-03-18T12:47:34-04:00January 2, 2019|1 Comment
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A Story About Her Son’s Killer Instincts

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Barbara Soloman Josselsohn Photo by ebeth photography Her son’s killer instincts on the tennis court leaves Barbara Solomon Josselsohn questioning whether she really knows him at all.  As a girl... Barbara dares to admit that her favorite show was The Partridge Family. She loved that rockstar David Cassidy and thought she knew everything about him from Tiger Beat Magazine. As a grown woman... Barbara has another rock star in her life, her son, and she thought she knew everything about him too. (But obviously not about the killer instinct!) [...]

2019-03-18T12:50:39-04:00December 26, 2018|Comments Off on A Story About Her Son’s Killer Instincts
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A Story About the Sex Shop in the City

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Kathy Radigan Photo by ebeth photography Would you ever take your mom to a sex shop? Kathy Radigan did. (By accident, of course!) The sex shop.... is a vivid memory that is forever seared into Kathy Radigan's brain.  Another memory is the time she was 11 and got a puppy Christmas morning!  But honestly... Kathy still can't believe the day she and her Mom took a Sex in the City bus tour, which accidentally explored some unexpected pleasures of the Big Apple. Here’s Kathy to tell all in...  "Sex, the [...]

2019-11-18T11:29:10-05:00December 19, 2018|1 Comment
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A Story About the Power of a Nickname

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Neil Kramer Photo by ebeth photography A nickname, as Neil Kramer can attest to, can be life-changing.   Growing up as a pampered...  only child, Neil Kramer had no official chores to do! He did chores just to rebel. Who doesn't want THAT childhood? With a story about sleepaway camp... and the accidental nickname... he got there, here is Neil with "Pass the Juice." Neil Kramer Born in Queens, Neil rarely left the city until he moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment industry at such places like [...]

2019-03-21T09:22:56-04:00December 12, 2018|Comments Off on A Story About the Power of a Nickname
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A Story About All Things That Is Family

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Jennifer Lizza My youngest son is in first grade this year. The other day his teacher told me she had something she wanted to share with me. Immediately I thought, oh boy let’s hope it’s not too embarrassing. He’s a good kid, but he’s six years old so you know how that can go. She went on to tell me... that they had been discussing heroes in class that morning. She decided to go around the room and ask each child who their hero is. Many of the kids named their [...]

2019-03-21T09:24:03-04:00December 5, 2018|1 Comment
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A Story About a Gunshot and Ripple Effects

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Stephanie Stearns Dulli   The gunshot, the blood, the very murder itself is a heavy stone dropped from a great height into our lives. Immediately everything is violently displaced. Though we continue existing, though what has been displaced settles… the ripples pullulate outward for decades. Generational repercussions lessening until it’s simply family lore. And even then, there is still pain. A gunshot... ended my father’s life when I was a young toddler. A blank canvas exists where my memories of him should be. My father figures pieced together from television shows [...]

2019-03-21T09:25:17-04:00November 28, 2018|1 Comment
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