Now, Here We Are
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by Deborah
3y ago
“Excuse me, can I ask you a question?” he said as he leaned into our table. I had been trying very hard to create invisible walls between our families just to give them the feeling of privacy while they ate their lunch. The restaurant was crowded that day, and we were practically eating with him, his wife, and their two small boys. “Sure,” I answered assuming he was going to ask me for the ketchup. Instead, he looked at me with sad eyes over his sincere smile and asked, “Does it get easier?” and he directed my attention to the two small boys crawling around and over their mother. I guessed 5 a ..read more
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Story Slam: Raising Boys Without Sports
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by Deborah
3y ago
Per the Studio B Story Slam Statutes as stated by Slam Supervisors, the story subjugator of a story slam will stand on stage at the subsequent slam and start said slam with a story. So… (Love a little alliteration.) At the last slam, I told the winning story, a story about the Women’s March. Some would say that my prize was the Studio B March Survival Kit, which included such practical items as a rain poncho, hand wipes, a protein bar, a travel pack of tampons AND liners (yuh-huh!), and a disposable toilet seat cover. I still have the 4 Beyond Seven lightly lubricated condoms if anyo ..read more
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School Supplies 2.0
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by Deborah
3y ago
Sure, I’m on top of the school supplies. Perhaps you think you’re on top of the supplies, too. You may have received your grade-specific list and stocked your children’s backpacks in preparation of the first day of school; certain that teachers will look kindly upon your children (and you) for having read your lists carefully, followed directions, and made sure your children arrived on the first day weighted down by all the pencils, glue sticks, notebooks, and disinfectant wipes required for a successful academic year. Ah, but the first days of supply-success fade almost as soon as each 2-inch ..read more
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We Traveled With Children And It Didn’t Suck
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by Deborah
3y ago
It has been the summer of transformation. Asher is taller than I am now. His voice has morphed into a peculiar timbre that is neither of boy nor of man and begs to be tuned. Levi is also delighted that he has discovered proof positive pubescence on his person. And Gabriella and I have successfully and happily traveled internationally with our children, a feat we thought reserved for other families with accommodating children, children who enjoy exploring, learning…and walking. We traveled to London for 2 weeks as a gift to Asher for his Bar Mitzvah. He had no interest in a party; no time for g ..read more
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Dream Friends Save Jews
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by Deborah
3y ago
Sometimes, text message exchanges make me laugh out loud. On fewer occasions, these exchanges make me laugh after I’ve read them a second time. And even more rarely, I feel that they are worth sharing with other people. Such was the case when my friend Vikki sent me a text that launched the attached exchange the other day. It is a silly exchange that makes me laugh still, and when I read it to Gabriella, she laughed, too. It’s possible she was just being polite or laughing because I was laughing while reading, but she laughed nonetheless deeming it shareable. Here are some thing ..read more
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Women’s March – A Mom’s Story
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by Deborah
3y ago
This post is a transcript of the story I read at the Studio B Story Slam last night. I would have posted a recording, but my lady spouse was out of town, and she’s my camera woman. Union job. Can’t ask anyone else to do it. Anyway, I wrote it specifically to perform, so you’ll have to imagine dramatic pauses, animated facial expressions, and pauses for occasional laughter. And you’ll have to imagine how excited I was to read … and then how honored to win. Thanks to Studio B and the magnificent and talented storytellers who moved me to tears and laughter and personify the power of words ..read more
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How Many Kegels Until It’s Safe?
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by Deborah
3y ago
If I’m going to take some sort of exercise class, it’s going to be something I enjoy doing. I won’t even finish saying the word spinni… because the mere thought of biking makes the inside of my lady lips ache in a very bad way, and yes the inside of my lady lips have ached in a very good way, but that is not the subject of this particular post. So no bike. Another factor in determining what form of exercise I pursue is cost. We are a one income family and that one income, while respectable, is not the sort of cash that will allow for a swanky gym membership and an access to an encouraging but ..read more
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I’d Rather Come Back A Cat Than A Dog Because….Pussies
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by Deborah
3y ago
“What does ‘He is risen’ mean?” asked my 9-year old, Levi, because it was Easter weekend, and he was looking over my shoulder as I scrolled through Facebook posts about Easter and Jesus and with all due respect to the Gentiles in the room, “He is risen” doesn’t make a lot of sense – unless you are like me and research the meaning behind weird words and phrases. “’He is risen’,” I told him, “is the King James’s version of the present perfect tense. It means that Jesus has risen and remains arisen having had reached arisen-ness. It’s old-school grammar that we don’t use anymore – like ‘The Lord ..read more
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Rod Serling Knew We Would All Color Our Hair
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by Deborah
3y ago
Taking my lady spouse to the salon to color her hair for the first time in her life felt like I was a parent dropping a child off at prom knowing that the next time I would see her, she would be different, forever changed, innocence gone, violated. I felt sick to my stomach. She was not as upset, though it would not have been her choice to color her hair. When you’re a … mature … woman forced to look for a job in a young man’s world, you have to color that shit up. I have been coloring my hair since my early 30s. Months before my wedding day, Reuben, my stylist, suggested I might want to do so ..read more
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Old Gay Films and Why I Love Them
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by Deborah
3y ago
Remember “The Hunger?” No, neither did half the people who showed up to a screening of it at my local theater the other day. They had never seen this 1983 Tony Scott film starring Catherine Deneuve, Susan Sarandon, and David Bowie…and the incomparable performance of a young Willem Dafoe as 2nd Phone Booth Youth. Local non-profit North Jersey Pride hosted the screening after the sad passing of David Bowie and served up some 80s realness with a side of vampire immortality and soupçon of girl-on-girl action. I braced myself for 96 minutes of torture that I hoped would at least be comical af ..read more
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