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A Story About Special Friends
A Story About Special Friends

A Story About Special Friends

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel We all know that having family and friends by your side makes everything better. Especially when it comes to helping you launch your passion project. I’d like to send out... a very special thank you to one such friend, Kathy Radigan, whose incredible contributions made the inaugural season of Every Family’s Got One a thrilling one. Kathy’s boundless energy, engaging sense of humor, and of course superb writing all helped to make 2018 a wondrous ride, one that culminated in a storytelling performance that left us both feeling enormously proud. [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-11-18T11:32:33-05:00May 1, 2019|Comments Off

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 [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-11-18T12:37:41-05:00April 4, 2018|6 Comments

A Welcoming Family Home

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel Have you ever noticed those families where a request for a last-minute sleepover, or friend to stay for dinner, or five extra people to come to the family holiday gathering wasn’t met with alarm and dread? But rather a genuine smile and an easygoing invitation of “Sure, the more the merrier.” Growing up, this was very much my family. It wasn’t that our house was big and rambling because it wasn’t. (It was, and still is, a cape.) And it certainly wasn’t because we were always guest ready, far from it. [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-11-18T12:51:52-05:00January 24, 2018|Comments Off