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Freely Emotional, Distorted and Intentionally Child-like Illustrations

October 10, 2022
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Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

In the process of working here and there on written out expressions of various life stories, going back to my first one done in 2006 called Crime and Punishment of the Problem Child, I continue to illustrate various parts in a very spontaneous (few preliminary pencil details, just enough to put on the marker) and loose style. My goal in these is first speed (I work these in as some type of reward in between doing commissioned watercolor – a...

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By eileenslifer
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Finding Ourselves in the Story: Lamentations Style Poetry

August 16, 2022
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My Poetry, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Tonight as I reflect upon the various aspects of my difficult day, after difficult yesterday and the difficult day before and the day before and the days before those days feel difficult and I anticipate tomorrow and the day after tomorrow and the day after the day after tomorrow and all the days that will follow those will likely be…difficult…I think of three particular things. The first thing I think on is how diamonds are formed under a slow, constant...

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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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Post-Humous RX for Best Meds to ‘Fix My Mother’

July 13, 2022
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Family Outlines and Assorted Collectibles, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Preface:(This piece was written August 11, 2016 – I found this in my “Writings” files I brought on my getaway to Buckhannon, WVA this weekend. I was re-reading it and decided I wanted to add it to my blog. I recall being in the earlier stages of meeting with a therapist in Alabama and sharing as much as I could about my own upbringing as context to the situation I had found myself in and how it was affecting me...

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Trauma Talkin’ Part III: On The Way To The Family Reunion

March 26, 2022
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Illustrated Short Stories, Life Stories, Personal Writings, Short Stories/Creative Writing, Women's, Family, and Recovery Issues, Writings

Written 4/24/17 I’m 54 and I just survived another round of extreme stress in my life. I guess my “fight or flight” energy is still going so I’ll let it down gradually by taking a moment to write down a story from my childhood to help bring mental closure to this round. There is a quote by James Taylor which I love: “To me, very much of what is artistic is people’s very creative and inventive ways out of impossible...

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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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…and Now That We’re Old, and Ready to Go…We Get to Thinkin’ What Happened a Long Time Ago…

June 30, 2024

DO YOUR HOMEWORK SERIES: A Preoccupation With Words (What Do Shakespeare, CS Lewis, Jacques Derrida, David Fitch and Gary D. Collier Have in Common?)

June 30, 2024

Do Your Homework Series: Deconstructing Spiritual “Gimmicks” (A Review of the Notion of ‘Having Coffee With Paul’ Promoted by Gary D. Collier)

June 24, 2024

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

June 16, 2024