Tag: birdie jaworski
member name: Birdie Jaworski
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July 17, 2007 07:45 PM EDT --
My youngest son crawls beneath my gramma's quilt these mountain summer mornings. I brace myself to brave the scuffed pine floor in my bare feet as he flops on his stomach and places vintage comics . . .
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December 11, 2006 04:22 PM EST --
I just received my December issue of Adoption Today. My story, Accidental Joy, is on page 56, along with a photo of me and the gang! This is my first print magazine byline! Yay!
I want to thank Gather . . .
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February 07, 2007 09:42 AM EST --
Last year I had to have a big fat ovarian cyst removed. My sisters named him "Chad." Today I get another round of hospital fun - my other ovary decided to grow a little treasure. These things . . .
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October 17, 2006 07:23 PM EDT --
A young Navajo man sits outside the most popular breakfast place in town. Niyol sits cross-legged most mornings as I walk my boys to school, sits with the same ripped jeans, the same black sweatshirt that . . .
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October 12, 2006 12:27 PM EDT --
The daughter I gave up for adoption sent me a small package last year. It arrived with the regular mail, in a soft rectangular manilla envelope secured with too much tape and stuffed with bubble wrap. . . .
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December 30, 2006 08:33 PM EST --
A bedraggled Santa rang a wooden-handled bell next to an iron Salvation Army bucket. I slid a few coins into the black slot, tried not to let my eyes rest on his five-o-clock stubble. Red veins crowded . . .
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March 13, 2007 11:23 AM EDT --
Hey y'all!
I had a horrific month after suffering some severe complications from my ovarian surgery. I'm back - finally! - and ready to Gather!
I'll be posting a long story about my . . .
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June 05, 2007 10:07 AM EDT --
Memoir
Memoir is the group for posting pure memoir pieces - memories, reflections, and narratives of your history, or the history of those in your family. Poetry is accepted if it is reflective and narrative . . .
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July 10, 2007 11:06 AM EDT --
BlogHer , the premier womens' blogging network, has asked me to start a weekly How to Write series. My introduction - including the series schedule through July - is now online:
Words in a Row: . . .
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July 19, 2007 07:59 AM EDT --
Good morning! Today's Writing Essential has gone to the dogs... and cats, birds, bunnies, pigs, horses! The theme is Animalia, and you are invited to post your short stories and poems about animals. . . .
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August 28, 2007 09:53 PM EDT --
A young man I know fell off an outcropping of granite this summer, fell eight vertical feet, fell into a six-week land of cast and crutch and exotic metal pins. Shattered tibia. Surgery. June plans as . . .
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November 27, 2007 08:24 PM EST --
In the midst of dark, war-torn 1939, artist Marc Chagall feared his days were numbered. The Nazis marched toward Paris, toward the small enclave of artists and intellectuals housing the middle-aged Russian . . .
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July 20, 2007 03:44 AM EDT --
I have returned from the wilds of New Mexico, and have selected a few wonderful new articles for your reading pleasure. Please drop by each of my Thursday Night Featured Picks and leave a comment for these . . .
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December 30, 2006 09:18 AM EST --
I follow the same simple ritual each time I cruise my neighborhood for new Avon customers. Backpack. Check. Brochures. Check. Extra skin care samples for bed-ridden Mrs. Gallegos. Check. Turn off . . .
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January 03, 2007 08:21 PM EST --
The land outside my town pours around decaying ranches and rusted cars, past lean cattle dogs and brown men in cowboy hats and torn jeans. My friend, Leo, lives here, lives in a stucco home with a dog . . .
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January 05, 2007 08:02 AM EST --
Three weeks before the turn of the year I turned forty-one. Turning forty was easy, was just a number, a notch on the invisible calendar under my skin. But this birthday brought a few new gray hairs, the . . .
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January 13, 2007 05:18 PM EST --
Some weeks ago I carefully encased a boxed bottle of Derek Jeter's new Avon fragrance for men, Driven, in three inches of bubble wrap. I twisted two good turns of black duct tape around the plastic . . .
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January 20, 2007 01:15 PM EST --
My Turkish friend, Ulak, drove from San Diego to visit me. He drove with the soft marine winds at his back, drove a day, a night, through the Mojave, past the City of Sin, into the sand art plains of Arizona, . . .
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February 05, 2007 09:58 PM EST --
My youngest son, 9, dragged my sewing machine across the living room floor. I heard it before I saw it, heard the bump and lurch of white metal scrape old oak.
"What are you doing! Hey! You're . . .
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March 16, 2007 08:10 PM EDT --
I recently completed writing a full-length book based on my experiences selling Avon in So Cal (prior to moving to New Mexico a little over a year ago), as well as the incredible journey I had meeting . . .
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