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A Story About Asian Culture and Fitting In
A Story About Asian Culture and Fitting In

A Story About Asian Culture and Fitting In

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Maria Adcock Photo by ebeth photography Fitting in is important to most people. (Especially when those people are girls in middle school!) Just ask Maria Adcock, the creator of the award-winning Bicultural Mama blog, celebrating the Asian culture. While these days... Maria takes great pride in her Chinese heritage, and great care to pass along that pride to her two young daughters, there was a time when all Maria thought about was... Fitting in. You see, growing up in the Midwest, Maria's family was one of the only Asian families [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-03-18T12:45:41-04:00January 9, 2019|1 Comment

A Story About Her Son’s Killer Instincts
A Story About Her Son’s Killer Instincts

A Story About Her Son’s Killer Instincts

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Barbara Soloman Josselsohn Photo by ebeth photography Her son’s killer instincts on the tennis court leaves Barbara Solomon Josselsohn questioning whether she really knows him at all. As a girl... Barbara dares to admit that her favorite show was The Partridge Family. She loved that rockstar David Cassidy and thought she knew everything about him from Tiger Beat Magazine. As a grown woman... Barbara has another rock star in her life, her son, and she thought she knew everything about him too. (But obviously not about the killer instinct!) [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-03-18T12:50:39-04:00December 26, 2018|Comments Off

A Story About the Power of a Nickname
A Story About the Power of a Nickname

A Story About the Power of a Nickname

Every Family's Got One 2018 Cast Video -- Neil Kramer Photo by ebeth photography A nickname, as Neil Kramer can attest to, can be life-changing. Growing up as a pampered... only child, Neil Kramer had no official chores to do! He did chores just to rebel. Who doesn't want THAT childhood? With a story about sleepaway camp... and the accidental nickname... he got there, here is Neil with "Pass the Juice." Neil Kramer Born in Queens, Neil rarely left the city until he moved to Los Angeles to work in the entertainment industry at such places like [...]

Every Family's Got One2019-03-21T09:22:56-04:00December 12, 2018|Comments Off

Love, Hugs, Magic, and DNA

By Every Family's Got One Guest Writer -- Heather Osterman-Davis Ethan, just shy of 2, is thrilled to be on a plane. Outside of that, he has no idea why this trip is such a big deal. He doesn’t yet know that our family is complicated or worry about ownership and identity the way his father and I do. To him the world is simple: love, hugs, and magic. This isn’t a vacation. We’re racing to get to Odessa, Texas, before Jeannie, my friend Eddie’s mother, dies. Jeannie is genetically Ethan’s grandmother, though until now we’ve been reluctant to consider [...]

Every Family's Got One2018-05-30T10:14:12-04:00February 14, 2018|3 Comments