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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. [...]

2019-11-18T11:32:33-05:00May 1, 2019|Comments Off on A Story About Special Friends

A Story About Finding My Best Friend

By Every Family's Got One Founder -- Barbara Herel   The dismissal bell sounded and the hallway instantaneously filled with the sights, smells, and the carryings-on of the cool, sort-of-cool, and not-so-cool tweens and teens of junior high. Hence the “smells.” (My 13-year-old self landed squarely in the middle of “sort-of” and I’m fairly certain I smelled AOK for the most part. My worst offense being: a heavy hand with the Jean Nate After Bath Splash.)  That’s when I saw her walking my way… Green-ribbed turtleneck, short sleeves Black and green plaid bell-bottomed pants Blue eyes   The blondiest of [...]

2019-11-18T11:38:33-05:00February 19, 2019|10 Comments

A Story About a Girdle and a Best Friend

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Mary Shea Most people remember their first kiss. I remember my first girdle. It was 1964, I was 14-years old and my best friend Sue and I were invited to Peter Murphy’s birthday party. My party dress was beautiful, but a little tight around the waistline, so my mother bought me a girdle. On the night of the shindig, I was excited and tried to get ready quickly. But the girdle that was holding me in... was also holding me up. I found that squeezing into it and then struggling to [...]

2018-07-16T14:13:26-04:00July 18, 2018|7 Comments

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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