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Caren Chesler

Freelance Writer at Freelance

Contributing Writer at New Jersey Monthly Magazine

Contributor at WIRED (UK)

None at Money-Media

I'm a veteran freelance writer, and my blog, The Dancing Egg, is an irreverent, witty take on what it's like to have a baby at 47.

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    LAWRENCE, N.Y. – When I was growing up, my mother didn’t like us touching her face because she’d had acne as a child and it left some small pockmarks, though I barely noticed them. To me, she looked like Annette Funicello, with big brown smiling eyes, short black hair with little bangs, and a slight buck in her top teeth that made her upper lip full and round, like cupid’s bow.

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Caren Chesler
Caren Chesler @TheDancingEgg
18 Apr 25

There are lots of instructions about what to do and say at a Passover Seder. They must have skipped the part about, "What if your son refuses to go?" Please read my latest installment of Suburban Diary. Pass-Over https://t.co/52sDpnBZuy

Caren Chesler
Caren Chesler @TheDancingEgg
10 Apr 25

My mother is not as mobile as she used to be, so I took her to visit her childhood stomping ground on Long Island, via FaceTime. There's more than one way to travel. I invite you to read the latest installment of Suburban Diary. https://t.co/DFEFBtPKzM

Caren Chesler
Caren Chesler @TheDancingEgg
3 Apr 25

The joy -- and the misery -- of train travel. I invite you to read the latest installment of Suburban Diary. https://t.co/70dWcgBIMn