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Elise Seyfried
An Open (Human Library) Book

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

As a writer, and a good friend of several librarians, I blush to disclose—I’m not a huge library...
Elise Seyfried
Nana Olympics

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

After 30 years of raising children, I became a grandmother. I was finally qualified to be on the...
Elise Seyfried
Columnist in Search of a Column

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

For nine years, I wrote a column for the Chestnut Hill Local , a small Philadelphia...
Elise Seyfried
Leaving the Station

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Last Thursday, I went to the grocery store for the first time since March, 2020. I’ve been so...
Elise Seyfried
Ever After

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Hasn’t time has been a slippery thing to measure these past 13 months? At some point 2020 ended,...
Elise Seyfried
H2O4U

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

When I was little, I hated drinking water. Well, to be fair, New York City tap water way back then...
Elise Seyfried
Our COVID Dish Supper

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

Last week marked the one year anniversary of the pandemic shutdown. I’m sure we all remember where...
Elise Seyfried
Mise-en-Place

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

For many years as a cook, I resisted the French concept of “mise-en-place” (putting everything in...
Elise Seyfried
Leftovers

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

I’ve never been a big fan of leftovers--probably because of the way Mom would store whatever...
Elise Seyfried
Symptomatic

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

For roughly 63 out of my 64 years shuffling along this mortal coil, I paid scant attention to my...
Elise Seyfried
Tough Luck! A Guide to Theatre Superstitions

Elise Seyfried

3 years ago

As someone who believes in superstitions, many of which I learned from my Irish grandma (I’d better...
Elise Seyfried
A Couple of Characters

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

As the pandemic wears on, we are finally bored enough to tackle a wide variety of overdue tasks...
Elise Seyfried
A is for Abcedarian

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

I’m taking a class on The Experimental Essay. Each week we work with a different form, such as the...
Elise Seyfried
Marketing Me

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Ever since my freelance writing career launched, and with it the opportunity for public speaking...
Elise Seyfried
Heart of a Hummingbird

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

“Consider the hummingbird for a long moment. A hummingbird’s heart beats ten times a second. A...
Elise Seyfried
Running Out the Clock

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Steve (bless his heart) was vacuuming our bedroom yesterday, and apparently in his efforts to de-...
Elise Seyfried
Old Family Recipe

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Tis the season for my Facebook feed to be filled with photos of Grandma’s famous cheese dip, Aunt...
Elise Seyfried
Pandemic Pageantry

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

This is the time of year at church when I put on my Cecil B. DeMille hat and direct the Christmas...
Elise Seyfried
Things Could Be Worse

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

3,000 American deaths daily right now. The pandemic seems to have decided that, with the vaccine...
Elise Seyfried
Shelf, Elf-less

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

We’re heading into what has traditionally been, for me at least, The Most Wonderful(ly Stressful)...