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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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Awkward Smalltalk with Thomas, Richard, Harold, and His Brother, Frank, and Her Marriages to George, and John

May 27, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Writings

By Jane Jones Written December 17, 2021 to January 24, 2022 Beginning her writing career at age nine, Jane presented her mother with some Haiku-ish type of assignment containing intentional literary form and meter, upon returning from school one afternoon. LIFE WhAT IS LIFE? LIFE IS TO STUDY, TO WORK, TO PLAY, LIFE IS TO BE YELLED AT, AND HATED BY OTHERS. LIFE IS toRture. BY JANE JONES Jane’s mother read the poem aloud over and over, with various inflections...

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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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Your Daily Does of ‘Whatever This Is!’ – HA.

March 29, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Writings

Social Media Post on My Lunch Break: “Your daily dose of cuteness and watching things that in the least, interest and intrigue me! Yes. It was indeed a double yolker! “A friend of mine downsized and we’ve been yard sailing some stuff together and she had some adorable little cast iron miniature pans… I love cast iron and so I wanted these… first time to carefully test them. Kind of fun and cute to just fry a couple eggs at...

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Taking the Headlong Plunge into Trauma Talkin’ (Part I)

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

“Have you ever heard of THERAPY!” This comment was written on social media in response to a friend’s blog-writing/sharing about the four-year-anniversary of the stillbirth of their full term son. It was unclear whether this was a question, or a statement, by the comment, or what their intention was. Right before this ending statement, the comment-maker acknowledged that the death of a child is hard/sad but that it had “been awhile” and then ended with that. Later, she and her...

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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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