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A Story About Falling Out of a Car
A Story About Falling Out of a Car

A Story About Falling Out of a Car

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel I remember falling out of a car. It is a slow-moving car on a busy thoroughfare. Somehow the passenger door opens and I can feel myself falling out of the car, head first, in slow-motion. For most of my life, I’ve had this reoccurring dream. Now, I don’t remember... ever falling out of a car as a child. There is no family lore. No charmingly hilarious story about the time Barbara fell out of a car and landed on top of her head on, say, Stuart Avenue. But I’ve had this car [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-11-18T11:37:19-05:00March 20, 2019|7 Comments

A Story About an Inner Princess
A Story About an Inner Princess

A Story About an Inner Princess

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Kathy Radigan When I was seven years old, I saw the Disney version of Cinderella, and the inner princess in me was born. I loved the sewing, singing mice, and the fairy godmother who turns rags into a beautiful gown and a pumpkin into a coach pulled by six white horses. And I couldn’t resist when Cinderella met her handsome prince and lived happily ever after. But I wasn’t raised believing... that I needed a man to rescue me. My parents taught my sisters and me that we could be anything we [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-11-18T11:26:08-05:00March 13, 2019|Comments Off

A Story About Interracial Marriage
A Story About Interracial Marriage

A Story About Interracial Marriage

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Rochelle Fritsch "Some people are born on third base and go through life thinking they hit a triple." ~ Barry Switzer Whether that quote evokes thoughts of privileged heirs claiming they worked for every penny they've earned, or if it calls to mind superior attitudes of a people or nation that have forgotten rough-edged forebears who laid their foundation, it smacks of an embarrassing truth. No one is immune to adopting this selective remembrance or air of superiority. Including me. Fifteen years ago... God saw I needed a life partner and in His time, [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-03-16T14:43:35-04:00March 6, 2019|2 Comments

A Story About the Sports Fanatic and the Girl
A Story About the Sports Fanatic and the Girl

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 [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-03-18T12:38:43-04:00February 27, 2019|Comments Off

A Story About a Friend Named Carol
A Story About a Friend Named Carol

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 [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-11-18T11:22:59-05:00February 13, 2019|1 Comment

A Story About Aging Parents
A Story About Aging Parents

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 [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-03-18T12:43:06-04:00January 23, 2019|4 Comments