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I Ate Raw Cookie Dough and I’m Still Alive

July 24, 2020
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues

This random joke I made four years ago came up this week in my Facebook feed as one of my memories – with option to re-share. Because, remembering making cookies four years ago and sharing a random amusing thought I had as I was eating the dough is surely worthy of re-visit. Life has a way of presenting challenges – battles – we face to which we either survive or succumb. And it seems that once some major battle...

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Do Not Pass Go, Do Not Collect Two-Hundred Dollars

February 17, 2020
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Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

There are times in our lives when we find ourselves in a prison of sorts. Times of deep grief, losses, upheavals and disruptions of all kinds and sometimes on every front. It is no longer business as usual. We find ourselves on the proverbial roller coaster. Metaphorically we are forced to not pass ‘GO’ and not collect our metaphorical ‘$200’ – those things which normally allow us to experience every twenty-four hour cycle of this journey called life with the peaceful...

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How Do You Solve a Problem Like ‘Elena?!’

January 30, 2006
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings, Writings on Violence in its Various Forms

The following blog piece is in three parts. I have backdated this post based on the middle expression which is from 2006, though all else is formed today (September 18, 2022). Part One During the past two days a series of thoughts and interactions led me to think about the song Maria from The Sound of Music. In my imagination of inwardly amused parody, I changed up the name to “Elena” which was the Spanish translation my Mexican family gave...

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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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