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Debra Rich Gettleman

“Call” me crazy

Posted on: February 2, 2012 by Debra Rich Gettleman 1 Comment

No matter how vehemently a parent opposes the whole electronic invasion, eventually your will is eroded and you give in to things you never in a million years believed you’d give into. So I figure it’s only a matter of time before my son manages to coax an evil, spend-your-life-texting implement out of us…

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“Doing the right thing” or “How to get burned”

Posted on: January 27, 2012 by Debra Rich Gettleman 1 Comment

I didn’t kill anyone. This is what I’m choosing to focus on at the moment. I’ve come to realize that life is all about perspective. So I’m committed to having a positive one on my most recent mishap.

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That was a cold swish!

Posted on: January 21, 2012 by Debra Rich Gettleman 2 Comments

Now my husband and I were shifting into hard sell mode. We whipped out my lap top and pulled up a U-tube of Hacksaw and Hammer effortlessly spinning basketballs on their fingers and balancing them on their noses. After all, a picture is worth a thousand words. It took about 20 seconds and one particularly humorous play in which Flip loses his shirt and shorts and powers down the court in his underwear before Eli was hooked.

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Vote for…mom?

Posted on: January 13, 2012 by Debra Rich Gettleman 1 Comment

Another voice in my head suggested I get myself fed and to work on time and simply allow my husband to handle the poster debacle. Of course that triggered a memory of the time Mark sent Levi to school for dress-up day, costumed in a bed sheet and kitchen mop wig, which wasn’t a disaster I cared to repeat.

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Window of opportunity

Posted on: January 6, 2012 by Debra Rich Gettleman 4 Comments

I’ve been dreaming of this very scenario for over a decade. But, much like the Chanukah let down of being gifted with a Dyson vacuum cleaner a few years back, this feels shockingly depressing.

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Winning isn’t everything. It’s the only thing.

Posted on: December 23, 2011 by Debra Rich Gettleman 1 Comment

My husband is a genius. Please do not, under any circumstance, reveal this information to him. However, I have to tell you that he has invented the single most brilliant behavior modification technique in the history of child-rearing. And it’s actually working!

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Wanna snuggle?

Posted on: December 16, 2011 by Debra Rich Gettleman 2 Comments

At first he just stared at me as if I had several rotating heads, each with disco ball strobing effects. Clearly I had lost my mind. After all, he was almost 8 years old! That’s only 22 years away from 30. Snuggle? On my lap? How horrifying. I mean, what if someone saw us?

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Overdue

Posted on: December 2, 2011 by Debra Rich Gettleman 6 Comments

Now, if you’ve never had to take money from your children, let me tell you, it is not an enjoyable task. You feel low, dirty and basically like you’re some kind of hopped up addict who needs to steal from her kids in order to score her next fix. It’s ugly, even when you’re doing it for the right reasons.

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Magic or madness; the choice is up to you

Posted on: November 25, 2011 by Debra Rich Gettleman No Comments

“I’m grateful for everyone at this table and everything on this table,” he managed to slur out in between massive mouthfuls of mashed potatoes. Now, normally, that might be enough of an answer for an 11 year old boy. But this seemed oddly abrupt for my theatrically inclined, loquacious eldest son who has never missed an opportunity to speak in front of an attentive crowd.

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Turkey sex

Posted on: November 19, 2011 by Debra Rich Gettleman 3 Comments

                  I heard this interview on NPR the other day with Stephen Dubner, the author of Freakonomics, and I just can’t get it out of my mind. He asked Kai Ryssdal what percentage of the 40 million Thanksgiving turkeys Americans will eat this year are products of [...]

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Debra Rich Gettleman

About Debra Rich Gettleman

Debra Rich Gettleman is a Scottsdale actor and writer. She is the mother of two sons, Levi and Eli. Read more at Unmotherly Insights.

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