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Elise Seyfried
Leftovers

Elise Seyfried

4 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

4 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

4 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)...
Elise Seyfried
Half Life

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Our local meat market came up with an ingenious idea, when their huge turkeys were languishing un-...
Elise Seyfried
Blog-a-Versary

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

As a former journal keeper, I have fully embraced blogging, for several reasons. For one,...
Elise Seyfried
Telling the Bees

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

My Grandma Berrigan used to describe a chatterbox as someone who “could talk the hind legs off a...
Elise Seyfried
Reflections on The Twinkie

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

I recently watched Eating Twinkies with God , a delightful video about a child who travels...
Elise Seyfried
Shadow Elephant

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

I’m not so good at sitting quietly with grief—mine or anyone else’s. Patty Problem Solver wants...
Elise Seyfried
Author Central

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Ya-Jhu just placed an online order. This is no shock, as Yaj—along with her mother-in-law– LOVES to...
Elise Seyfried
Dining Out

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Goodness, have I missed sugar packets. And menus. And the hustle-bustle of diners and waitstaff. It...
Elise Seyfried
Workshoppin’

Elise Seyfried

4 years ago

Last week I experienced my first Erma Bombeck Writers’ Workshop. This biennial event is a biggie...