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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 a Boy and his Mama

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Neil Kramer Image from rawpixel.com My mother was in her yoga class in Boca Raton last week, doing one of her chair exercises, when another woman accidentally moved the chair that my mother was leaning against for support.   My mother fell back, hit the floor, and when she stood up, the teacher noticed blood.   The paramedics... quickly came and she received three stitches in the back of her head.   She’s OK now, or “Perfectly fine,” as she always says, and already back in the exercise class. [...]

2019-09-18T10:47:58-04:00September 25, 2019|Comments Off on A Story About a Boy and his Mama
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EFGO Writers Workshop: It was great!

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel  Image from rawpixel.com Last Sunday, the cast of Every Family’s Got One came together for our first Writers Workshop. After introductions, hugs, and food (a big part of any workshop experience as far as I'm concerned), we settled into a table read. A table read if you didn’t know is just that – sitting around the table, paper in hand, reading our stories. Here are 3 things that made my heart soar: 1. Even in this most casual of settings, the stories came to life. There is an emotional [...]

2019-09-12T16:53:01-04:00September 18, 2019|Comments Off on EFGO Writers Workshop: It was great!
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A Story About the Feast of San Gennaro

By Every Family's Got One Guest Poet -- Marie A. Mennuto-Rovell Image by rawpixel (Mac Arthur Avenue 1953) The front door of my grandparent's house opened directly into the festivities...   Cotton candy cones... licked clean, littered  our street this late summer week-end.   Endless streams... of immigrants and their offspring meandered up and down our block all day and into the evening.   My grandpa Giuseppe... volunteered to help carry the life-size statue of the patron saint of Naples in the procession preceeding the celebration.  I remember... how the bees hovered around the torrone nougat candy concession, right [...]

2019-09-09T13:06:49-04:00September 11, 2019|Comments Off on A Story About the Feast of San Gennaro
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A Story About Life and Death Surgery

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel Image from rawpixel.com Holy Carp!!! I just performed emergency surgery on a goldfish. This is an honest-to-God true story.  The fish got a pebble lodged deep in its mouth as it was eating. My 9-year-old daughter was the first to notice it right after feeding him and alerted us with cries of… “MY FISH IS DYING! MY FISH IS DYING!” My husband, who was on his way out the door, was the first on the scene to assess the situation. “Ohhh, yup… look at that,” he called to [...]

2019-09-04T06:37:52-04:00September 4, 2019|4 Comments
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Oct 16th Tickets Now On Sale!

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel   Consider yourself invited to the 2019 Every Family’s Got One show! Join us for an evening of 8 true stories about family – with notable storytellers from HuffPost, Scary Mommy,and The Moth. You’re going to love...  the 2019 cast as much as Tony and I do. Their stories are amazing and amazingly diverse with topics ranging from self-discovery, to mental illness, to life lessons learned from living an extreme family lifestyle. You’ll laugh, be enthralled as well as inspired. You’ll also be... well fed because My Father’s Place, located in the [...]

2019-08-27T13:27:03-04:00August 28, 2019|Comments Off on Oct 16th Tickets Now On Sale!
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A Story About Flaunting Curves and Body Image

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Molly England image by rawpixel.com My curves are an outward symbol of my inner-stress. Contrary to how the Dove ads would like me to feel—I’m not in love with them, and I certainly don’t want to show them off this summer.  I know that in this enlightened, feminist-rising era, curves are symbolic of powerful women who aren’t ashamed of their bodies.  My story is not one of shame... but I do feel uncomfortable in my expanding waistline and chaffing thighs.  My growing size is a manifestation of mounting pressure, my struggle to cope, and a reliance on mindless eating. Self-care is on the back burner, and it shows in the tight grip of my jean shorts. I remember my first diet. [...]

2019-08-22T21:22:31-04:00August 21, 2019|10 Comments
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