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Women’s, Family, and Recovery Issues

OVERQUALIFIED

February 14, 2025
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

(I started to make this a social media expression, but decided to move it here. It’s just some musings, and I’m not going to spend extra time editing it or over-formatting it. Some will get it, others will not.) _____________ OVERQUALIFIED. It’s the word that keeps coming to mind tonight as I review and reflect upon an experience I had tonight. While it was moderately or maybe quite “successful” it was not fully what was expected either on my end...

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Holding Patterns and Happenstance…

December 22, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I have seen something else under the sun: The race is not to the swift or the battle to the strong, nor does food come to the wise or wealth to the brilliant or favor to the learned; but time and chance happen to them all. –Ecclesiastes 9:11 If you’ve ever flown on a plane you may have had the interesting experience of the jet needing to remain a little longer than usual in some holding pattern either on the...

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Oh God Be My Rock and My Strength (Five Years Ago Today My Second Divorce Was Finalized)

December 19, 2024
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Today marks exactly five years since the divorce decree from my second, fateful marriage of almost eight years was signed and finalized. For weeks I have periodically contemplated (usually while driving) what kind of blog expression this milestone deserves and what I should say or not say. Surely I have formed numerous titles from the tens of thousands of words and stories and reflections and details that have wafted through my mind... At some point recently, I decided that I...

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Insanity, Horses, Vomit and Clocks

December 12, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I’ll bet you are puzzled how any of these things might be linked together in my mind or in a blog piece. Well, here goes. They say, “Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result.” This saying has become popular these days and I do think there is a lot of truth to be found it the idea. However, it is only partly true. We must ask ourselves also, “What do we do when...

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Surely There is A Name for “This and That,” and for “Him and Her”…

August 18, 2024
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

I’m struggling here. And I want and need to express and I want and need to be understood. Coming up with the title of a blog piece can be half the battle, and my mind has meandered over several titles until I came up with the above. On the naming of things… Naming things is one of the most important things we humans do in order to communicate, and naming things (people, places, things, concepts, etc) serves so many important...

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The Mother Sandwich: When a Father Loves His Children More Than He Hates His Mother and Their Mother

June 16, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Fatherhood is not simply a biological condition but it is a spiritual condition inherent since the beginning of time, with numerous applications and overlap, and especially, implications and consequences. This will not be a typical Father’s Day post per se. And let me start here by untangling the title just a bit. Another way to say this would be, “A good father loves his children more than he hates his mother. A good father loves his children more than he...

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When God Speaks

May 29, 2024
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Dreams, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There’s been some things on my mind tonight as I’ve been working outside and contemplating a situation. I had some worship music on and was in a meditative frame of mind, rolling some matters over and over in my mind as though turning them from various angles. At one point, I had this deep sense of interpretation of part of a spiritual dream I had last Thursday night. Some dreams are simply dreams borne of my own psyche, while others...

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Fear ~ Sadness ~ Loss ~ Lack < JOY > Thriving

January 18, 2024
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”― C.S. Lewis, A Grief Observed Pretty much every morning for at least the past ten years I awake to a sense of fear and unease. In some of my writings here I have described and tackled articulating this phenomenon in various ways from various angles. I think of the Cinderella story. Like clockwork, at midnight everything about her magical life is removed and she is stripped down to her base situation....

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A Christmas Gift (to and from) Alabama Jack

December 24, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Norman “Jack” Wright was never a client of mine, per se, but on one of my computer’s three hard drives in my Client’s Folders from between 2012 to 2014 exists a folder named “JACK-ALABAMA.” In memory of Jack, I’d like to make his story part of the great story of Christmas, and gift it to whomever takes time to read this piece. ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ I hadn’t been living in Decatur, Alabama but maybe several months...

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Welcoming the Newcomer

December 3, 2023
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Anyone who has been a visitor at a church knows that there are a variety of ways the family of God approaches and welcomes visitors and newcomers. Over the years when in this position, there have been things that make me feel either like I want to go back, or I want to never go back there again. Today, I simply share some musings and observations about myself and others after returning for a third time to church on a...

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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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