Meet the Cast

The Husband – my husband of 6 years, attorney extraordinaire, super hottie, awesome dad

The Juban Princeling – our 3 1/2-year old son. Jewish + Cuban = Juban. I did not make that up. It's a real thing, I promise.

The Duke of Juban - our younger son, born March 2012.

Mr. Funny – my brother, government drone by day, hilarious stand-up comic by night

Gilligan – my brother-in-law, fellow writer, sailor, book snob

The Professor – his live-in boyfriend, currently a grad student out in teh Los Angeles

Ronnie – my friend in the nabe, former teacher, fellow mom in the trenches, and the most put-together person I know

NoLa – another neighborhood pal, fellow geek, impossibly creative, and possibly the retroactive inspiration for all of Tennessee Williams’ plays

The Hotties – a group of 7 women who’ve kept me sane for the past 5 years

Beatrix Potter – one of the Hotties, whose daughter is one of my son's best friends

Jewtalian - my Jewish friend native of New Jersey, who moved to Italy to be with her Italian husband and raise a little Jewtalian baby

Ex-Pat - my friend native of Detroit, who married a Canuk and moved to Canada to be with him and raise a little McFrog baby

Tia - my Nicaraguan-American BFF of 20+ years, still lives in Miami, math nerd

Mrs. Snape - my Harry Potter Wife

Patsy - my gay husband, we went to Hebrew School together when we were 7 and now we take care of each other in that special way only a gay man and his lifelong fag hag can do (do people still say "fag hag?")