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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.

Being an Older Mom

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel With the average life expectancy for women in the U.S. being anywhere from 73 and a half to 86 years of age, I can tell you as the 54-year-old mother of a nine-year-old, if I kick when I am 73 and a half, I’m going to be pissed. That said I always knew I’d be an older mom. When my college friends were getting pregnant in their twenties and thirties, I never felt I was missing out. It was only after marrying my husband that I can truly say I caught [...]

2019-11-18T12:35:21-05:00May 9, 2018|12 Comments
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My Angels in Heaven

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Stacey Skrysak   “I wish my brother and sister would come down from Heaven.” It was a typical weekend morning. In the wee hours before daylight, my daughter nudged me gently. Groggy, I pulled back the sheets and let her crawl into bed with me and my husband. As the quiet morning gave way to chatter, my daughter nuzzled next to me. “I love you Mommy and Daddy,” her sweet voice filled the air. Without skipping a beat, I replied, “I love you too.” As I thought of our sweet family, I [...]

2018-05-30T09:47:02-04:00May 2, 2018|2 Comments
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Mom’s Family: Lessons in Acceptance

Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Stacie Evans My grandmother, who I called Mom, had many children. Biologically, there were two, my dad and my uncle. But she was a foster parent for more than 40 years, starting when my father was a teenager.  Many of her foster kids stayed in our lives long after they moved out of her house. They became family. The older ones became my aunts and uncles. The ones my age and younger became cousins. I think about what having a long-term foster placement meant for the kids who came to Mom’s house, and [...]

2018-05-30T09:48:05-04:00April 25, 2018|2 Comments
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Bathroom of Horrors

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Lori Holden It was a dark and stormy night. Actually, it was a frigid January night, and all the homes in our old neighborhood were shut tight. As tight as the skin on Mickey Rourke’s face. I was in the bathroom... bathing the kids, then ages 4 and 2. My husband, Roger, was out of town and not due until the following night. His absences were particularly hard during those early years, and I would celebrate his return with a quick peck on the cheek (well, not consistently) as I headed [...]

2018-05-30T09:55:37-04:00April 18, 2018|4 Comments
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Elvis Has Left The Building, A Farewell To My Cat

Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Elizabeth Robinson I'm big on marking occasions. Even terrible occasions. I guess that's something Facebook and I have in common. I actually waited to write this about Elvis until I got my Facebook memories for the day so I could see what the final pics posted were and download them. One year ago this morning... I fed the pets and Elvis wouldn't eat. I don't remember if he even tried. I suspect not. I could have waited until evening to see if he rallied but given his chronic wound and how difficult [...]

2018-05-30T09:57:00-04:00April 11, 2018|2 Comments
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More Than a Friend, My Soul Sister

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Kathy Radigan Four years ago, I spent a very rainy Friday afternoon in a temple sitting with other mourners as I listened to a rabbi say beautiful things about a friend I knew... long before I was a wife, mother, and writer. Michelle was a strong, kind person who had lost her hard-fought battle with cancer. My mind couldn’t help travel back to a time before we met the men we would marry or answered to children calling us mom. It was a time in our lives when anything and everything was [...]

2019-11-18T12:37:41-05:00April 4, 2018|6 Comments
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