: About Me

Elita Clayman is a senior citizen who writes encouraging articles linking daily life and values to ballroom dancing and what dancing can do to enhance one's life. For 17.5 years, she was the senior page editor of Amateur Dancers magazine and now writes her inspiring articles for a dancing website.www.Dancingwith.Renez.com
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She is a wife, mother, mother-in-law and grandmother.
You may contact her at elitajerrydancing@verizon.net
Elita knows that senior citizens can and will be productive in accomplishing activities such as ballroom dancing, writing articles, playing tennis or anything they desire to do now at this moment in their lives.

They need not sit around watching television, eating in excess or being bored. There is still so much to do and be and they want to be that kind of person.

This is her inspiring attitude that she hopes to spread to all seniors.

My passion is ...

Ballroom Dancing

I know too much about ...

Ballroom Dancing

My parents always told me ...

if you cannot say something nice, do not say it at all

My childhood ambition ...

To be a ballroom dancer and an established writer

Why I write ...

To express my feelings on life now and past experiences

My first job ...

putting books away at the public library on Saturday mornings for 45 cents a hour

My best moment ...

Having my two children, seeing my grandchildren the first time and winning my first 5 trophies at a ballroom dancing competition in 1982

My inspiration ...

parents who encouraged me and my first dance teacher who inspired me at age 43 to compete and excell

Creative Writing > Reflections Reflections: Family conflict

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Family conflict can tear a group of people apart and wreck lives. A friend of mine married into the typical bitch mother-in-law situation. Her to be mother in law decided that the wedding colors of the coming event did not suit her. The bride chose pink and white.Everyone in the wedding party would wear pink and the bride white. Well the to be mother-in-law and her daughter ( the groom's sister) decided that in all the big city they lived in there was not a desirable pink dress for them.So they wore blue and the darling and pleasant bride changed the colors to pink, white and blue just to ...

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