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Life Stories

Mother’s Day Project: Jonathan’s Baby Album Scanned

June 20, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

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Mother’s Day Project: Zachary’s Baby AlbumScanned

June 20, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

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Freedom’s Just Another Word For Nothin’ Left to Lose

June 10, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

A friend and I have been working toward a joint creative pursuit. This is a sneak-peak at some artwork that will be used in part of this project. I started this last Friday. Some days, a song will come on Spotify and just hit some personal or creative sweetspot. It can be of any genre. That day, it was Janis Joplin’s Me and Bobby McGee. I ended up putting it on loop for several days, and even tonight finished up...

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White Lace and Promises – June 1, 1985

June 1, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I suppose it takes a lot of nerve to make a blog post like this. But, it just seems fitting, for some reason. My marriage to James Edward Elfers took place on June 1, 1985 at Newark Christian Fellowship in Kemblesville, PA. Officiants were Reverend Gerald (Neil) Uniacke and Reverend Bruce Latshaw. This was the first wedding Neil had performed, as I recall, and was the second wedding on the property in the church’s partially finished Barn. In fact, members...

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Creative Solitude, Processes and Writing Challenges

May 27, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(written 12/17/21 to 5/27/22) There’s an old film with Tom Hanks called Castaway. In the film, he is a lost sole survivor from a plane crash who finds himself alone for a lengthy time on an uninhabited island. Since this film only has a few actors other than Tom Hanks himself, I wonder whether the budget was as significant as other films in which he starred as the main character. In this story, to keep himself engaged, he is resourceful...

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Life Stories: Other Moms, Teenagers and Dogged Pursuit of Normalcy Got Me Through May 16, 1979

May 16, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

(written April 15, 2022 to May 16, 2022) It was my 16th birthday. I got up that morning undoubtedly listening to all kinds of garbage pouring forth from my mother’s mouth. May 16th 1979 A neighbor who lived two doors down, the mother of one of my closest childhood friends at that point, took me to Christiana Mall. Not only do I have vague remembrances of her talking with me about my father’s death just five days prior, and the...

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My Frozen Father

May 11, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Some stories are birthed in pitch black darkness. They are the writings of a lunatic under a full moon that reflects no light because the sun has vanquished. They are the recollections of unexpressed howling during a full eclipse of the sun at midnight. To some, they are inconsequential retrospective ramblings of an aging woman who would do well to stop thinking back on that long ago May day… To others, this is a story of intrigue and resilience. Looking...

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Grateful God Works in Mysteriously Weird Ways!!! A Bit Nostalgic Here…

April 26, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I am putting my Social Media Post From Today here for some additional photos and written expression! It sent me on a nostalgia break as I located some photos on my computer and previous Social Media Post from 2017! God does work in mysterious ways and I like to acknowledge that, along with all the twists and turns my life keeps taking along with the adventures (and misadventures). They say a picture is worth a thousand words, I believe that!...

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Life Themes – Past, Present and Future

April 16, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Religion, Politics and Current Events, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

I seem to still be reflecting upon life themes more closely. I have modified my own life theme list into two sections, not necessarily in a particular order and in each section one single thing may come and go from the forefront of the intersections of past, present and future… But, basically the first section involves my observation of my own life themes in terms of challenges or conflicts based on situations beginning at birth, and technically before birth, since...

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Portrait in Purple: Innocence

March 30, 2022
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Commissions and Client Comments, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Sometimes I complete portraits that are gifts, or otherwise personally inspired and non-commissioned works. This piece is one of them. Begun around 2018 or 2019 while still in Alabama, I was inspired by some old photos I saw either online, or possibly by email…old photos of my cousin, Laura, that I had never seen before. I recently learned that her oldest brother, Dennis Slifer, had taken these old black-and-white treasures…I do have them in my computer files labeled “Laura…and 1963…”...

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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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