tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-81399804301558062172024-03-13T22:03:38.486-07:00Creative TMIChef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.comBlogger547125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-31719809058145155792015-02-06T05:24:00.001-08:002015-02-06T05:24:30.461-08:00Where I am most of the time is...<br />
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<a href="http://elizabethakinstelling.com/">Elizabeth Akin Stelling</a> (and I am food posting again, just not as often as I'd like).Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-30072876467615567742015-01-26T15:29:00.000-08:002015-01-26T15:31:45.351-08:00The New And Improved Chef E<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I'm doing it, losing weight.<br />
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Some do not believe bariatric surgery, RNY, or by pass as some call it, is a real way to lose, because of the doctor's making your stomach into a pouch the size of an egg. It is though. Why? Because we, the patients have to maintain it and add exercise into our daily routine.<br />
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How did I get so fat, 338 lbs? It is a long story, but years ago I lost my precious daughter, then moved, twice, and tried to restart my catering business and chef career over, and over, and again. Eventually (little violins playing right about here) I honored my husbands wishes and promised not to start any other business up when my cafe closed, teaching jobs ran dry, not to mention other food related and poor economy sadness hit our area. It happened in Dallas ten years before we moved, and the reason why we moved to being with, hubs lost his job (technical IT work left the Dallas area).<br />
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I found myself home, bothered by some things, so I stuffed my face and locked myself in for about three years. I even slowed down on blogging (some may have noticed).<br />
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Well, I'm back, my new business (with the help of hubs) and career in publishing and writing has been only getting better. I still have straggler chef clients I work for here and there. I also do consulting work for the state of NJ. I'm happy.<br />
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I joined the gym again, and told by my nutritionist and dietitian to get out of the house more, I do. My traveling stuff began again, so that has me on the road, a lot this year.<br />
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My heaviest weight was 338 October 2013, and when I was told I have diabetes, officially. I saw a bariatric doctor in February, he set me up with the hoops you go through, but then I discovered there was an issue with Barrett's Esophagus, surgery was halted. Talk about "here we go again!" and depression. I rescheduled the endoscopy for six months, it had gotten better. My only option due to reflux and the chance of cancer in the stomach or throat, to do the bypass over the sleeve. So I gave in and went with it over no surgery and only more weight gain.<br />
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I woke up from surgery November 19th and said, "No regrets." The biggest battle is the eating. Right now I am limited, but I get what I need, a heavy protein diet. I'm consistently losing and in the gym. I am tired right now, but have heard it gets better. I feel young again. (photo above is me at 23, I didn't grow up over weight, was always fit).<br />
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The say the honeymoon period is over after two months with this surgery, but not for me! I had to fight and still am. I only wish this bragging came earlier. A reason I won't share, but it feels good to come back in full force. Not to mention my own book, My South By Southwest is doing really well.<br />
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Never give up! I really hadn't...<br />
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Me last week in VA at a writers conference. I read as well as my pub company sold books. I will show a full view of my body in a few months. I still have middle body fat that needs to go. Hubs says I am still sexy, no matter, and he should know!<br />
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Peace everyone...Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-6523434944339218482015-01-23T07:30:00.001-08:002015-01-23T07:51:17.402-08:00Just A ShareI learned today a former acquaintance passed away, not sure when or how. I have no feelings either way, not happy, which some might find rude if I was; nor sad, we did not have a good re-pore between us. He was a stalker towards me, and I had filed a restraining order against him (called the police many times). He called me consistently on the phone over a course of three years, usually drinking late at night. I truly was in true fear of my safety. He was cruel, snarky, and plain mean in his actions. He often told people it was me, that I was a liar and a fake. That I took his actions wrong. Strong personalities like his are narcissistic in nature, bullies.<br />
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Sure I am a grown woman, but what most didn't understand is I had been robbed, raped, and attacked by two men like him. You are emotionally scared, some call it PTSD in today's terms. It never goes away.<br />
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There was a laugh when he suddenly added "Chef" to his name a few years ago, after he told me you had to earn it, as if I hadn't, when I worked in the business for 30 plus years, attended and worked for a culinary school, as well as worked as executive chef on several jobs.<br />
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He caught me on the tale end of my cafe and catering business, asking me for a job on the phone once. I was avoiding him on the fact of his strong personality, but the real truth was the economy hit hard here, and in my area no one hires you if they have not tasted your food. Many catering companies here have been a round for a long time, word of mouth, and many closed shortly afterwards. I worked as a personal chef for four years, on the side, but my clients daughter passed from the same illness my own daughter had eight years prior, I had to just call it quits, and re-invent myself. Things were just bad, but I had no work for him or anyone at that time.<br />
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I was happy to see him get into the business he wanted so badly, because it meant he might leave me alone. I had to remove comments from my food blog because of him, and added them back to this one. He tried to friend me on Facebook when I moved there, and I had to block him and the false names he used. I hoped he would give up.<br />
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Eventually he did stop bothering me. He stopped calling and coming over here to leave me comments. He did not run me off of the blogging world as he had wanted, I just found myself busy with my new business and writing. I do credit him for pushing me in that direction, I wanted to prove to him I was a good poet and writer, so thank you for that one old boy. I am sorry your son has to go it alone without you. I always felt his son deserved better.<br />
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Many of my foodie friends had no idea, one did, she was a great help to me during those times, and even agreed his personality was strong for my fears. I am grateful for her help and advise. I tried to move on, and did.<br />
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Being hateful all these years (since 07) wasn't me. I do not wish for anyone to fall prey to illness or even death. All I wanted for was for this person to stop being mean to others, he did not own the net, blogs, or even the food environment, and I did hear he did what he did to me often enough. Most thought he was such a nice guy, granted he did have some talent (was great at mimicking others, and often admitted it). I knew better.<br />
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Okay enough, I just had to say what was on my mind. I was taught to get it out in the open, and it is easier to move on.Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-25693270068602775352014-03-15T11:56:00.003-07:002014-03-15T11:58:59.767-07:00My South By Southwest: A Cast Iron Tempo Recollection by Elizabeth Akin Stelling<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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The book is finished. The launch is beginning. I've got the beginnings of the road tour, started this past week. Things are just way busy, it is more like before I began blogging. I still work for a local Princeton family, cooking and helping with their three daughters. I still cook, write, am running the publishing company, and am having a darn good time at it all.<br />
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My book was edited by three different people over the course of last year til last month. I feel really good about what it holds, my new voice, and have decided to call myself an old western revivalist poet. Just seems to fit.<br />
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I mostly post on Facebook now, for private reasons, and it is better to talk one-on-one over there. I hope all of you are doing well. I hope you are living out your days in peace. I want the best for even the snarkiest of you. Seriously, it's how I roll.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century","serif";">I've never
been to Texas but after reading Elizabeth Akin Stellings' fine book it seems
like I have. It's better than a Lonely Planet Guide in that the poet marks
every locale with personal references. You learn more about Texas than if you
went there. It preserves the past without sinking into nostalgia. It's a gritty
description of a poet's love of a place that is gone, except in her memory and
images. She shows how the land intersects with her life. She has a visual
sense, shifting from the personal to the landscape, like a city scene and a
still life merged together. I've never read anything like it. She proves
through her writing that borders are just a state of mind.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Century, serif;">1 1994
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<span style="font-family: "Century","serif";">Elizabeth
Akin Stelling’s My South by Southwest presents a childhood without fences −
just yards and yards of Texas fields and skies.
Her language is dense and fresh and very moving − like the surprise of
falling asleep on freshly washed sheets.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Century","serif";">To recall
something is to remember something from the past, to find a special moment in
time and grant new life to it. Elizabeth Akin Stelling’s My South by Southwest
Recollection grants new life to all regions of Texas, with a final movement
east to New Jersey. The collection begins with childhood memories of cowboy
culture, of boots and stirrups, of cornbread and beans, and then it culminates
in one woman’s recollection of her beloved past and all of its precious images.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century","serif";">Stelling
chooses to define her own poetics in My South by Southwest Recollection. Rather
than utilizing traditional poetic forms or mechanics, she writes in the style
of the Beat Generation by breaking lines for sound and rhythmic emphasis. By
doing this, Stelling mimics the musical, local cultures of Texas. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Century","serif";">By using
Texan images, dialects, and music, Stelling writes a Western experience with an
inspired voice.</span><br />
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<b><i><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">My South by Southwest: A Cast Iron Tempo
Recollection </span></i></b><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">is a provocative
collection that chronicles a special quietude inside thunderstorms that
unsettle both earth and heart. Elizabeth Akin Stelling is a poet <i>prospecting as storyteller</i>. She masterfully unearths emotional trapdoors,
unexpected complexities, humor, and the resiliency of mature love. These poems
celebrate triumph, fearless honesty, and the pursuit of grace. Elizabeth Akin
Stelling drowns the page in <i>red clay
misery</i>. Her two <i>step small talk</i>
is the language of power needed <i>for the
price you pay to roam free in harsh country</i>.</span><br />
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Go here to purchase my book- <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4520281">My South By Southwest: A Cast Iron Tempo Recollection </a>Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-50900315383468069892013-12-16T15:52:00.002-08:002014-01-03T04:20:58.425-08:00Time Just Gets Away<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Happy Holidays everyone!<br />
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The usual story for me lately, working and working, both jobs that I love.<br />
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Hope your holidays were sweet and restful...<br />
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From now on you will find me at <a href="http://elizabethakinstelling.com/">Elizabeth Akin Stelling</a>- things are just too busy to run so many sites, thanks for following all these years; it all began in 2008, and has been a great ride!<br />
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Peace xoxo<br />
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<br />Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-69079961287643050442013-11-21T10:27:00.002-08:002013-11-21T10:29:12.023-08:00RIP Vilas Pagan-Afanador aka Author Smyte 9<a href="http://elizabethakinstelling.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/authorsmyte91.jpg"><img alt="AuthorSmyte9" class="alignnone size-medium wp-image-271" height="300" src="http://elizabethakinstelling.files.wordpress.com/2013/11/authorsmyte91.jpg?w=280" width="280" /></a><br />
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He is/was a great Philly poet, and I had the opportunity to know the past four years. He is loved by many, and will be missed by us all. My heart was broken to read he had left us last night. I cry every time I see his photo. Smyte was only in his 30s and had very profound poetry. He recited his and others work in a Spoken Word fashion. Something I have always wished I could do by memory.<br />
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The last time I saw him at a reading I didn't know who he was. He grabbed my arm, I looked down and saw this shallow face telling me hello. Then when they called his name I was shocked to see it was him. He had posted the cancer was beaten several times, so to find he was so ill, well, now I wish I could hug him so tight.<br />
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Goodbye friend. xoxoChef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-44687965606250004102013-11-11T12:20:00.000-08:002013-11-11T12:21:43.974-08:00Three New Books Arrived!Poetry Books & Gothic Fiction by Red Dashboard LLC Publishing-
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<a href="https://www.createspace.com/4505579">Memories of When We Were Birds</a> by Ray Sharp
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<a href="https://www.createspace.com/4473783">Night-Crawl</a> by M.V. Montgomery
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Yes, hubs and I just returned from a wonderful trip (we drove) to Niagara Falls. Was so romantic.<br />
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It is our 16th, and we still are as crazy about each other as the first years, which we knew each other two before that, and as friends. That in our opinion is the best way to begin.<br />
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Sometimes you see romantic movies where friends realize "Why aren't we in a romantic relationships?", sometimes they slip up, but in the end they always come back together.<br />
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We had some slip ups along the way. He thought I was too strict on my children (I made Aaron cry himself to sleep one night, but you should have seen what he did), and shortly after we brought them kids into the relationship as his step-kids Anelisa passed away; it was a rough ride after that until I came out of the fog of grief, but we made it.<br />
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He and I are best friends. We tell each other everything. Laughter is at the root of our friendship and love, he makes me laugh daily, and I the same for him. Most of all we adore each other and he has always insisted we kiss at every moment possible, good morning, good-bye, hello again, and good-night. Sweets is what I call him, and he calls me Pumpkin.<br />
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Okay enough goo-goo ga-ga-ga. The room (above is night with falls lit up) he book on the Canadian side was WOW! The view out the window after room 30 was WOW! They were suites, so we had a new blogging and FB friend and her husband meet us their. We served them cocktails and nibbles before going to dinner.<br />
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Busy is the reason.<br />
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Have had a ton of things going on. Red Dashboard LLC Publishing is one of the main and good reasons. We just put our first book out-<br />
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Click here <a href="https://www.createspace.com/4439973" style="text-align: center;">https://www.createspace.com/4439973</a> and you'll be able to buy the book! Yes!<br />
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Rodney Nelson is one of Cowboy Poetry Press regular contributors. His work is unique. Once an editor himself and now an avid hiker he documents his trails in stanza and into poems.<br />
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Working on the next one, a short story collection via an author who also published through the journals I oversee, by M.V. Montgomery.<br />
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I have also been busy publishing my own work. Two poems were just picked up by a litmag who puts out a print anthology. There will be a link posted when it goes up.<br />
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Hope you all are doing great. I do peek at your sites when I can. Peace.Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-26334912093277981712013-09-12T06:49:00.001-07:002013-09-12T06:55:11.438-07:00Water Under The BridgeI am going to tread on water here, most definitely not walk on it, I'd sink like a rock. But I decided not to get on social media on September 11th. I tire of endless status remarks about what happened that day 12 years ago. Mainly because my daughter passed away a year earlier. When it all took place on television and in NYC I was numb. I could not even feel sympathy, sure I was not happy about it, but as I found out from others who suffered losing a loved one (a child especially) they said the same thing.<br />
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A poem came out in the process of meeting others who shared watching television and how we felt that day and days, years afterward. Now I am sure the families of those lost can relate when they also watch a life and death situation on the news. It's just awful, the worst feeling to lose someone you love. I wonder how many have lost a child on Sept 11th and cannot cope period. PTSD can take its toll.<br />
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Losing a child might seem harder, but I respect those who have lost period.<br />
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PS- I stole this title from a beautiful poet KMPoetry, my apologies and go check out her site!<br />
<a href="http://www.karampoetry.blogspot.com/">Kara M Poetry </a></div>
Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-85723174542529574812013-09-05T07:15:00.003-07:002013-09-08T03:33:11.839-07:00How Do I Love Thee...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Let me count the ways. I woke up in a funny mood and decided to make this my new Facebook status over the course of the next few weeks, if I last that long...<br />
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1) I love thee, like nuts love chocolate. <br />
2) I love thee like cacti loves the high noon sun.<br />
3) I love thee like biscuits love sausage gravy.<br />
4) I love thee like plants love the pouring rain<br />
5) I love thee like early birds love their worms <br />
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<b>How Do I Love Thee</b><br />
<b>by Elizabeth Barret-Browning (1806-1861) </b><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">How do I love thee? Let me count
the ways.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I love thee to the depth and
breadth and height</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">My soul can reach, when feeling
out of sight</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I love thee to the level of every day's</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I love thee freely, as men strive
for Right;</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I love thee purely, as they turn
from Praise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I love thee with a passion put to use</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">In my old griefs, and with my
childhood's faith.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I love thee with a love I seemed
to lose</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">With my lost saints, --- I
love thee with the breath,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">Smiles, tears, of all my life!
--- and, if God choose,</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">I shall but love thee better
after death.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,Monaco;">(picture above taken from a free picture website with poem) </span>Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-78808625897583417692013-08-30T11:48:00.001-07:002013-08-30T11:49:41.346-07:00Seamus Heaney, RIP <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I am sure if some of you read this you will feel how I do when I saw so many mourned Steve Jobs, I was sick of seeing peoples blogs and Facebook posts mentioning him. He just did not influence me at all. Sure he did hubs in some ways, but just never crossed my mind to follow him. Maybe some will not even know, but stop for a moment and bow in quiet as I do when a funeral procession drives past me in the car. <br />
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A giant has passed away early this morning. I had the opportunity to see him read in Dublin almost 20 yrs ago. I had no idea of his greater influence on the world of poetry, but I seized the opportunity to do something Irish, and I wrote crappy poetry.<br />
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Then I saw him in Boston this past February. I knew who he was, read his work. Jim Knowles even mentioned him, and I knew it was time to revisit his work. I had hoped there would be opportunity when hubs and I visit Scotland to swing over to Ireland again, rekindle my longing for its tea and green country side, and the yearning to hear their accents again and catch a glimpse of Seamus sipping tea in an outdoor pub environment. I can dream can't I!<br />
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Ireland was one of my dream trips. Three weeks of driving from town to town, turning down the most difficult roads, and feeling the free-est I have ever felt in my life, at the time of course. It of course has lead me to my current path of happiness. My life has in some ways been very painful, but I would never have it any other way. It is who I am.<br />
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I will confess, tears do not come for me so easily, maybe years of difficulty I put up a wall that is not easily broken through, but today I felt loss. I know loss more than some, less than many, and tears flowed.<br />
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Seamus Heaney I bid you a happy journey back to whence you came. You shared in a good life, surrounded by family and friends and a landscape of so much there are no words. I read that you liked to converse with ordinary folk like me, leaving out praise because you are humble, and liked to talk of paths, childhood, travel, and shenanigans. <br />
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I wrote this poem with you in mind, trying to create a piece reflective of your work-<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Simply
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burden of sorrow for those loved—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Rest will come: then we</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">(photo taken with my cell during the poet laureate talks at AWP 2013 in Boston- it was an honor seeing him for the second time) </span></div>
Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-11076646283636312382013-08-21T18:41:00.002-07:002013-08-21T18:44:33.370-07:00Playboy Club, Dallas, Texas 1977-82<div>
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Did I ever tell you my Playboy Bunny Club story?<br />
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I am going back to my first knowledge of the <a href="http://www.dmagazine.com/Home/1977/01/01/Bunny_Business_Will_Dallas_Get_a_Playboy_Club.aspx">Playboy Club</a>, hearing my parents discuss whether my dad would join. We had no extra money, so there was no discussion. I also heard my parents gossip about our neighbors (three houses down to the left, facing my parents home)- the husband who quit his profitable job to become a minister, his wife who was very attractive and came out for the paper in her robe, and their two children, both boys. I think they were little brats and she would never let them leave the yard. I thought my mom was strict. I believe we were around our tweens, I was the oldest at fifteen (yes I know, we were bored). The club opened around 1977 in a <a href="http://fdluxe.dallasnews.com/2013/07/bunnies-gone-wild-former-dallas-playboy-club-members-host-reunion.html/">high rise</a> off of Central Expressway- which is now owned by SMU for offices. Another residence was the Dallas Cowboy franchise, which football players frequented the club. </div>
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The wife was rumored to have found part-time employment at the club. We did not let a day go by without harassing this woman after the husband moved out and she filed for divorce. The scandal hardly could contain us. The neighborhood boys wanted to see her come out and lose the robe, so it was always something to get her to the door. My sister, Steve
(Leslie's younger brother, my first boyfriend), and Tim always hid behind these enormous (in height and width) bushes and
we would ring her door bell just to watch her come and get pissed off
at us. We would all run and laugh. Once the hormonal boys were rewarded by her coming to the
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husband went and tried out for the bunny job, and got it. I babysat for them from fourteen to leaving home at sixteen, but often would visit when I came home. When I was
about to turn 18 in 1979 they confessed to her having the Playboy Club Bunny job part-time. Then she let me try
on her costume, which was black, because she had flaming red hair. It fit. But I am sure it was against <a href="http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/the-playboy-club-bunny-manual-tsy-required-retro-reading/">the rules</a>. Not sure.</div>
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I was very mature body wise, her husband used to tease me about having
boobs. I think he was a boob man, and I gave him a boob cup for a gift
once. Janet's sister was visiting and they asked me if I wanted to do
something special for my 18th. Her sister was 22 and wanted to go to the <a href="http://theselvedgeyard.wordpress.com/2012/05/09/the-playboy-club-bunny-manual-tsy-required-retro-reading/">Playboy Club</a>, they gave us the key but we all ended up going. There was a lure to this private club scene, and I wanted to check it out. I do remember feeling everyone was so much older than I was.</div>
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I ordered a Tom Collins, because I had no idea what to drink. I wasn't
much of a drinker, and got tipsy. It was very dark in the, entrances, hallways, and to
the bathrooms. I called out 'Oh man is it dark or what' and
out of the blue an African American man came out of the darkness, his big white eyes and teeth smiling saying BOO; it was Ed 'Too Tall' Jones. Janet was behind me, excited she
told me who it was. He laughed out loud as my heart was beating so
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The club closed less than a year later, and it seemed the eighties I loved came around- Madonna, big hair, monochrome colors, music with lots of saxophone and shoulder pads. Did I mention leggings? I miss those and shoulder pads the most. It was fun reading the various sites about those times, my parents era coming to an end. The young seem to grow into their twenties and we older folk stop aging as time goes by, swifter than a jack rabbit on the run...</div>
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I see these cute little bunnies all over the landscape here in New Jersey. The jack rabbits of my youth, the size of kangaroo passing in front of my parents car in west Texas, would eat these babes alive. We do remember bigger than life images don't we! </div>
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My son is in Columbia South America. This photo is in Cartagena. I was scared to death when he bought the ticket, but hey I have to let him sow his oats.<br />
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Confession- it has been nice having our house back this past week. Love is in the air... There is something to be said about parents having their digs back...<br />
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Peace...<br />
<br />Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-46165814849695756362013-07-29T04:48:00.002-07:002013-07-29T04:51:19.865-07:00Over loaded...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Gosh it has been busy. I attended the FAWC school and am back now. I also ran out and helped a friend, you may remember her Randi's Gourmet? Well I agreed to help her set-up for a wine festival this weekend and we stayed over. She spent the night last night as we got in so late last night (mostly from the crappy rain storm, and not being able to see so I drove 40 miles an hour LOL).<br />
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I did make the cut again for the US1 Summer Fiction contest again. They only pick 20 or so from hundreds of entries. This go round 'Pretty Brook #3' was chosen. #1 was chosen for a journal in 08, so I am excited this version made the cut...<br />
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<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Pretty Brook #3</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> <i> a
scenic Princeton road</i><br />
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sputtering morning hikes<br />
calming after climbing over railing <br />
through brush tributaries that follow paths<br />
wind down as far as eyes can see<br />
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babbling points--</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">the way to the perfect spot <br />
fish jumping<br />
hearts pumping<br />
as lines are thrown to lure <br />
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the fresh taste of things to come<br />
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cast iron heat anticipation<br />
with a little oil <br />
and sun drenched cornmeal<br />
breading and baiting<br />
patience and waiting</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />
listen to the geese, bullfrogs<br />
small birds and feel the breeze<br />
quiet moments of things to come<br />
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watch fly fishermen in waders pass<br />
dipping into holes up to their knees<br />
in and out of glory<br />
their big fish stories<br />
close behind are children </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">with poles, wiggly worms on a hook<br />
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generation of teaching, and love move in steady current<br />
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eyes under a hat ping along distraction<br />
a poets pen sketches more history than fish<br />
her husband casting new words on falling landscape<br />
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dragon fly locomotion <br />
inspiration found —<br />
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through meditation and silent laughter<br />
by afternoon moods change from growing hunger<br />
the smell of activity heats up across the road<br />
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a private club livens as tennis balls pop the minutes by<br />
it’s time to move along, but tomorrow gives promise<br />
to the sites down off Pretty Brook Road.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Have a great day and Peace all...</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> (photo above was taken in one of New Jersey's tributaries off the northern water shed- my husband fishing) </span></div>
Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-13248841290425831762013-07-12T15:45:00.000-07:002013-07-12T15:45:16.510-07:00Just Busy...is the name of the game. Between work and writing and studying, I find time has gone by so quickly.<br />
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This was my small stone today on a poetry site I belong...<br />
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent">Busy with studies<br /> of poetry and writers<br /> revisions, writing new drafts, and laughs<br /> because old memories took me<br /> down roads long forgotten.<br /><span class="text_exposed_show"> I give you something my father<br /> used to share, more than his loose change--<br /> don' t take any wooden nickels<br /> from strangers.<br /> (made it into a poem today)<br /> <br /> Packing to go to my MFA school<br /> a journey in Cap Cod<br /> maybe no internet, just a<br /> good ole notebook and pencil they said.<br /> </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">I also met with my poetry mentor Monday. I had taken a class with him and his wife and they ask if I wanted to do some one on ones. They found my writing to be worth a focus, for me to aim at getting writing full of things I know. I have tried to write outside of that, but it just doesn' t work. I don' t have that Jessie Carty touch. She can make lines form in a way I just can' t figure out. But I can cook and she can' t nah nah nah. Oh, she and I laugh about that. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Getting some of that magic in the kitchen into my poems is also a goal. My fifth project is a recipe poem book. Collaboration of many poets. Then I have some other sights in mind. </span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show"> Hope you are all fine and happy. If not, then work on a goal. It worked for me. And there is a poem over on my elizabethakinstelling.com site, if you're interested...</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-weight: normal;"><span class="messageBody" data-ft="{"type":3}"><span class="userContent"><span class="text_exposed_show">Peace friends. -- Chef E, a Texas poet</span></span></span></span></span></h5>
Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-66819963778420423102013-06-29T08:09:00.000-07:002013-06-29T08:09:30.692-07:00Feeling the love...<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I have to say I have been very blessed in my life. There were times I doubted myself as far as education went, and a few who felt terrorizing me into a corner (names are not worth saying) was a good thing. Well all it did was make me even stronger. Ha! Whose on top of the hill now!<br />
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I have been contacted by a well known poet duo to do one on one's in poetry and prose, kind of a protegee. How exciting since I also will be attending FAWC in Cap Cod in two weeks, and they know my instructors.<br />
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My goal is to up the anty on my transitions and material. To strengthen what I am already good at, prose poetry and storytelling.<br />
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As far as home life, my son is still living with us. He has begun seeing a new girl- a very cute and sweet, but young African American who is part south American and Haitian. She is a criminal law student, plans of FBI and forensic science. How cool since my son told her I love CSI shows, detective drams, mostly BBC lately. Funny convos going around when she stops by! He is not ready to get serious, that is why the last two walked out on him. He is doing major rock climbing with friends, made lots of new ones, and they go into PA to scale very high rocks. Scary.<br />
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Hubs got a new job within the same company and is so happy. He sat last night and talked about how he got kudos from the upper management for his work this week. Happy hubs, happy woman. Oh, I was already happy!<br />
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Sister news, no news. She has kind of fallen into a group of online gamers on Faccebook LOL yes, I am afraid she will not hold her own as she is even more sensitive than I can be, but hey she is out of my hair most of the time. We talk once a week and I say ahhhh, but I love that little shit! Her partner lost his job, so I don't know what is going to happen. He is still a Mexico resident and not USA, and always said he was going back in his retirement. I doubt she will go, so not sure what she will do. Her income is below poverty. Sigh.<br />
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Well, that is it for now friends, I adore and love you all, even the shits out there!<br />
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Peace and hugs<br />
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(I may have posted this in the past- my photo and taken in PNW from about four or five years ago, boy how time flies!)Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-67688534688114519572013-06-26T07:19:00.002-07:002013-06-26T07:19:22.943-07:00Wordless Wednesday- Rehobeth Beach, DE<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Getting ready for a gathering of poets and artist at my house Saturday, my birthday is Sunday. And I am celebrating all week!<br />
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Peace, hugs and hope you are all having a good life...Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-45041309269168552712013-06-06T09:59:00.000-07:002013-06-06T10:04:27.726-07:00Oh Shakespeare, how I did love thee...<!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Our assignment was to write a sonnet of our choice. The first few days I just could not think, feel inspired, but then I realized no one had submitted a piece for Annapurna</span></span><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Magazine's June Issue- Strawberry Moon. So, I decided to write something on my own. I also decided to use original Shakespearean form- abab cdcd efef gg rhyme pattern (10 syllables and 14 lines). </span></span></div>
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on this road through urban past<br />
a trip beyond empty buildings<br />
much more lay decayed <br />
neglect is the overseer <br />
of slaves who felt lashes strike hard<br />
whipped into nothingness<br />
poverty books every boarded up window<br />
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monsters of nightmares<br />
minion street signs lead innocent to run<br />
into the arms discomfort<br />
same place<br />
same time<br />
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its mother moved on long ago. <br />
<br />Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-24884512059471457512013-05-20T17:00:00.002-07:002013-05-21T17:48:26.110-07:00tsondoku<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span class="st">That <i>word</i> is tsundoku (Japanese) and its definition is as follows: (n.) the act of buying <i>books</i> and not reading them and/or letting <i>books pile up</i> unread on shelves or floors or nightstands.</span><br />
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"It literally rained poetry all weekend, and many of us walked away drenched." - EAS<br />
<br />Chef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-41797093377301101762013-05-17T16:12:00.001-07:002013-05-17T16:12:15.308-07:00Still holding my breath...Came up for some air. Classes keeping me busy. I have WAMPP this weekend, and am making goat for dinner. Trying to draft poems for class and on my own (a project or two with Tyson West).<br />
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EChef Ehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11198603107302675448noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8139980430155806217.post-19062140992219162472013-05-04T15:03:00.000-07:002013-05-04T15:03:21.212-07:00ConfessionI am a bit overwhelmed this week, with work and classes overlapping.<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">Heavy Dogwood waits—</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt;">a mother at full term gives</span></div>
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