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How I Fell in Love With My Mother

May 14, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

It took me nearly sixty years, but I think I finally have fallen in love with my mother. I will never be as much in love with my mother as I was with my father, but I had an unusual breakthrough. What woman isn’t ‘in love’ with their mother? It’s why they shop together and bake together, and share women stories and woman jokes. It’s why they fix each other’s hair and eat chocolates together and put on nail polish...

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Blessing, Cursing and the Irish

May 12, 2023
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Anyone who knows an impressionistic bit about Irish/Celtic culture and history might readily think of various poetical Irish Blessings such as, “May the road rise to meet you, may the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face and the rain fall soft upon your fields, and until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of His hand.” I was able to type the above from memory not because I necessarily...

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Various Thoughts About Generational Blessing and Cursing

May 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

I’ve been thinking on these things for quite awhile. Those who have been in various Christian settings have likely heard references to a number of scriptures that indicate that both spiritual blessing (legacy) and spiritual cursing (legacy) can flow through families in a variety of ways. It feels daunting in my mind to lay out too many different scriptures (let alone connect them to family specifics) that one should seek to better understand regarding these things, so I will try...

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Who Were You Before You Found Yourself in This War?

April 11, 2023
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Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

“Who were you before you found yourself in this war” ~from an email to myself4/6/2018, 1:29 AM In one of my favorite scenes from Saving Private Ryan, the Captain Miller’s small band of men are at such internal odds with one another over various things, and, the mission itself, that they are on the brink of making a new war between themselves. It is then that the Captain (played by Tom Hanks) has the wits about him how to deflect...

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My Great-Grandfather Was Literally Pierced Unto His Death During Christmas of 1893

January 23, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Jacob Albert Carter was born in 1850 and died on December 27, 1893 at the young age of forty-two, leaving behind his widow (my mother’s mother, Margaret Jane Kennedy Carter) and eight children ranging in age from six to nineteen years old. Jacob was a farmer, of thin build and medium height and “had a mustache.” I suppose this might describe a lot of his contemporaries in Braxton County, WV. The general account of Jacob’s untimely death is as follows:...

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Jacob Albert Carter

January 23, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

Jacob Albert Carter was born in 1850 and died on December 27, 1893.1 MY GREAT-GRANDFATHER WAS LITERALLY PIERCED UNTO HIS DEATH DURING CHRISTMAS OF 1893 __________1Pg. 24-25, The CARTER, ALKIRE, KENNEDY, WILLIAMS and Related Families, by Judge James M. Carter, published 1977....

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Someone Confused Rat Poisoning With Baking Powder

January 15, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

My maternal great-great grandfather, Thomas Kennedy, came to the United States around age 25 which likely dates his immigration to 1846. Like many in this country, our ancestors came from Ireland during the Potato Famine. This famine began in 1845 and lasted until 1852. According to his daughter, Margaret Jane Kennedy (my great grandmother), her father married five years later. Thomas’ own father had died when he was a young boy and he didn’t much remember him. At some point...

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The Carter Family Overview, History and Memorabilia

January 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

The following genealogy is adapted from the book The CARTER, ALKIRE, KENNEDY, WILLIAMS and Related Families, by Judge James M. Carter, published 1977. The Family of Jacob Albert Carter and Margaret Jane Kennedy (Carter)1 Jacob Albert Carter, (born September 20, 1850; died December 27, 1893), son of Robert Marshall Carter and Catherine Rebecca Alkire (Carter)2 married Margaret Jane Kennedy (born November 29, 1851; died March 20, 1939), daughter of Thomas Kennedy and Sarah (Sally) Williams. They were married on March...

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Margaret Ruth Linger (Slifer)

January 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles

October 21, 1923 to November 29, 2001. Married January 31, 1948. MY MOTHER’S CODED DIARY MESSAGE MADE THE TRANSLATOR BREAK OUT IN A SMILE WHEN SHE FIGURED IT OUT! (January 2, 2023) MY MOTHER REFERENCED ‘CONFUCIUS’ IN HER HIGH SCHOOL POETRY ASSIGNMENT (January 2, 2023) VINDICATING MARGARET (July 22, 2022)...

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A Woman Named Emma

January 9, 2023
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

As I was thinking on this piece today there were several different scripture texts that popped into my mind and I almost wanted to start with one of them, but when I read the surrounding context I’m not sure it is well-suited to the main theme of this piece. On the other hand, perhaps it is a perfectly-suited opener. My fear is that readers may become diverted with all the controversial mess-and-mucky interpretations/applications/conversations that have likely been surrounding this chapter...

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Eileen Slifer

I am a visual artist who works in a variety of mediums - producing fine art, illustration and design commissions/products for clients. I have been creating since childhood and sharing my giftings for hire since 1989. I also love to write and have been expressing in this way for a number of years in private poems, stories and journals that have been shared with treasured friends or publicly. Thank you for visiting my blog. I value the time and interest you spend on my expressions, and I read every comment.

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