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The Mirror: A Short Story Written in 2005

August 8, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(Preface: This story was written in the fall of 2005 and dealt with both the death of my first marriage covenant and the death of my mother, originally written in an intertwined rumination of sorts. It was written in a free-association and free-form style, actually in one single evening, from a friend’s beach house where I went alone with a key, to pore through the paperwork involved in filing for divorce through a simple mediated process where we worked out...

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Not Afraid of Sixes, Opening a Fortune Cookie in Buckhannon, WV…or Painting a Black Cat into My “Masterpiece!”

August 8, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

On this Sunday afternoon, as I try to navigate through the muck, devastations and other aftermath of what most rational people might term a serious string of bad luck – that my neighbor, acutely aware of the various sequences of my seeming bad luck, especially with vehicles, that I’ve endured here over the past two years, actually agreed with me the other night on the phone, using a different word that though I’ve heard before, is not in my typical...

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Holding Tentacles With 10,000 Octopi/Recognizing Despair/Job Chapter 6:2-3

August 7, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Maybe Mr. Rogers was wrong about something. Maybe even, he was wrong about everything. He lived in a world of make-believe, and he told children, “Whenever you are in a scary situation, always look for those who are helping.” (paraphrase of how I remember it…I suppose I don’t always need to read the news to see scary situations). Furthermore, I also may be wrong that I perceived when we reach to someone we think might help alay our fears, and...

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I Want This More Than Wanting to Hold My Grandbabies

August 3, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

This piece is really pretty simple. More than wanting to hold my grandbabies, I want to see the sweet, grown, sensitive, loving and kind beautiful face of my son, Jonathan, holding his children....

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For His Name’s Sake (Psalm 23:3)

July 29, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

(Featured artwork above was created by my youngest son, Jonathan, around age 9…it is Jesus with Psalm 23 in his hand writing) About three hours ago I received word that my granddaughter, apparently the first of Jonathan and Taylor’s twins (the other is a boy, as I understand things from afar) is about to be born at “any time.” I will not say how I was made aware of this. It was not from Jonathan. It was not from Zach....

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And Then ‘Imagination’ Jesus Said to Me, “Make Ready Your Dancing Shoes, Grandmom!”

July 27, 2022
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Feral Thoughts, Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was painting this afternoon, finally, for a good block of time. I’ve been really distracted by so much, recently. As I listened to music, painted and thought about various things, I was wondering to myself…how, if or when might I even hear or know when my youngest son’s twins are born – my grandbabies – since he has decided to have no contact with me. I got to thinking about a story a dear older friend told me. More...

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Vindicating Margaret

July 22, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Since Sunday afternoon (July 3) of my recent trip to Buckhannon, I have had a somewhat unusual internal experience and process that seems to be unfolding within me, in an unexpected and potentially interesting and healing way. They say we must pursue truth, wherever that leads us.It sometimes seems everyone has their own truth. Even Pilate said to Jesus, “What is truth?” In all human conflicts there seems that one person’s truth is pitted against another’s. Or one political group...

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Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child

July 20, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

by Eileen Slifer An Illustrated Short Story Written February 4, 2006 based on recollections of a true event “Life is like a movie in which you get to play the part in a scene just once, experiencing the sequence of events with all its sights, sounds, and subtleties in moments of time, leaving you nothing but mental and emotional replay for years to come.” That I was a particularly clever or devious child I would not describe myself as such....

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I Wish I Had Never Conceived You

July 13, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

I was standing in my mother’s kitchen, in my childhood home. I was in the same kitchen where my father had stood over the sink six years earlier on a Friday evening in early May, arguing with my mother, while having a heart attack. I was trying to get past my mother and out the back door, and she stood on the step or two between the kitchen and the back door landing. She was holding the wrought-iron railing and...

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Carter Was Particularly “Violent” Toward Me

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

Eventually I will be writing and elaborating more on the contents of my mother’s 1945/1946 diary. I took some of her diaries with me on my getaway to Buckhannon in case I wanted to study them more closely. On Sunday evening, after taking a drive out to the old Weston Hospital (now the Trans-Alleghany Lunatic Asylum) and taking some photos and going in parts of the first floor, I came back to the hotel and began reading through her writings....

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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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