Rasma Raisters
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My passions are writing and creating poetry. I write for several sites online and have four themed blogs on Wordpress. Please follow me on Twitter.
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The Boston Strangler
Anna Slesers, an immigrant from Latvia lived in Boston at 77 Gainsborough Street. She was 55 years old and worked as a seamstress. Having finished dinner on the evening of June 14, 1962, she saw that she had enough time to take a bath before her son Juris arrived to pick her up for the Latvian memorial services held at her church that night. She put on the opera music of Tristan und Isolde and went into the bathroom. When Juris arrived he got no answer when he knocked on his mother’s door and becoming worried forced the door open. He found his mother lying on the bathroom floor with the cord of her bathrobe around her neck. Juris telephoned the police and his sister in Maryland to inform them of this tragic “suicide.”
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Criminal
Cats Say Meow
Devon Rex These cats have big ears and their bodies are thin. They look a bit unusual. They can quickly learn tricks and love to have their humans around. These cats are referred to as people-orientated snugglers that enjoy cuddling up to their owners at night and will wake them up with hugs, kisses and purrs of affection in the mornings. Devon's love to have cat toys tossed at them and ten-fold return the love their owners shower on them.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Petlife
Chocolate Heaven
Europe Sweden Kladdkaka is one of the most popular Swedish desserts. This delectable chocolate cake is prepared with eggs, cocoa, butter, sugar, and flour. During baking, the cake should always stay moist in the center while the outer layer should form a thin and crunchy coating.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
When the Moon Hits Your Eye Like a Pizza Pie
California-style pizza is a combination of New York and Italian thin crust with toppings from California cuisine. Wolfgang Puck popularized this style of pizza. California-style pizza was invented more or less simultaneously in 1980 by Ed LaDou (the “Prince of Pizza”) and by pizza chefs working for Alice Waters at the Chez Panisse Café in Berkeley, California.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
Majestic Trees
Silk Cotton Trees are Asian tropical trees, They have a straight tall trunk and their leaves are deciduous in winter. In the spring red flowers with five petals appear. The tree produces a capsule that when ripe has white fibres like cotton. These trees grow with huge twisting roots, made up of long, wavy, narrow planks. Their trunks have spikes to deter attacks by animals, Silk Cotton Trees are certainly an impressive sight to behold.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Earth
American Pasta Dishes
New York Chicken Riggies is an Italian-American pasta dish that comes from the Utica area in New York State. The dish is a delectable combination of rigatoni pasta, hot or sweet peppers, chicken, and a spicy, flavorable cream and tomato sauce. If you are travelling here you'll find almost every restaurant in Utica serves this dish.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
Adorable Animals
On the Land The Red Panda has a soft red fur coat, the cutest fluffy ears, and a bushy tail. This panda grows only to the size of a domestic cat. It makes its home in Nepal, Burma, and central China living in mountainous forests. Most of its time is spent up in trees.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Petlife
One Potato Two Potato
Europe Ireland Colcannon is a traditional Irish dish that is made by taking cooked potatoes and mashing them with kale or cabbage. The ingredients are made creamy by adding milk or cream and butter. The only seasonings used are salt and pepper. This dish can contain additional ingredients such as chives, onions, scallions, and leeks. Others might add bacon for extra flavor.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
Remembering Baby and Johnny
A modern-day couple similar to all the great lovers of history were Baby and Johnny who met at a resort one summer in the lovely Catskill Mountains in upstate New York. The actors Jennifer Grey and the dynamic and handsome Patrick Swayze who left this world much too soon and now dances among the stars in the skies made these two characters really come alive. The movie was ”Dirty Dancing” and it got us singing, dancing, romancing and sighing.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Poets
Say Cheese
Europe England Cheese and Onion Pie is the ultimate English comfort food. The pie is a combination of shortcrust pastry, cheddar or crumbly cheeses and cooked or fried onions. There can be additional ingredients like potatoes, creme fraiche and a sauce that is made with flour, milk, and cream, The pie can be served hot or cold and accompanied by a salad.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Feast
The Soul Mate Connection
Back in 1994, I was coming off of a really unsuccessful marriage and all I wanted to do was turn my life around. My mom who at that time had already passed the age of 80 had been eager to return to her homeland Latvia. We also had the task of taking along my father’s urn so he could be reburied in his homeland in Ranka in a country cemetery not too far from where he was born and raised.
By Rasma Raisters5 years ago in Humans
