Tag: life
member name: Birdie Jaworski
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February 03, 2007 09:06 AM EST --
My youngest son, 9, turns 10 in a few days. He woke me an hour ago.
"I can't sleep."
He tossed his art supplies on the bed and crawled in after them. Graphite pencils, rubber eraser, . . .
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August 07, 2006 09:51 PM EDT --
The first time I met Ulak he stood in line at a coffee shop along the Pacific Coast Highway. I stood behind him, stared at the tufts of black and gray hair sticking out from the back of his neck. My God, . . .
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November 27, 2006 12:02 PM EST --
Last Christmas I walked outside to wish my next-door neighbor a loving holiday. I saw him out my living room window standing beneath the twisted pine. Don leaned on the curb as if some invisible force . . .
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August 04, 2006 08:05 AM EDT --
I had serious Avon Apathy this late summer. Sure, I knocked on doors, left satin smooth brochures and samples of beauty promise on beach cottage porches, under doormats, stuffed behind screen doors, balanced . . .
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August 03, 2006 10:46 PM EDT --
Two nights ago I gathered up a handful of the latest Avon brochures, fifty of the new Avon Men's Catalogues, a bag of men's Ab Cream samples, and my demo bottle of the brand new Today fragrance . . .
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August 02, 2006 07:38 PM EDT --
I'm not a Believer, at least not the kind that attends church and casts silver hopes to the heavens. I ran away from home the day after I turned sweet sixteen. I tossed my rosary beads out a bus window . . .
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August 01, 2006 07:15 PM EDT --
A month ago a man called me. I need foot cream, he said. Lots of it. Different kinds, too. Can you bring some samples? A lot of samples! I need around a hundred.
"A hundred samples of foot cream? . . .
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August 09, 2006 10:07 AM EDT --
One of my customers ordered the new Avon Thinner Digital Precision Body Fat and Hydration Scale. Aimee lives alone, in a second-story brown stucco condo facing the west lagoon. I spent an hour with her . . .
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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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August 14, 2007 11:49 PM EDT --
A Hopi kachina watches my computer screen from over my right shoulder. He wears a sanded leather loincloth over ochre skin, collar and cuffs of soft maple rabbit. He stands two-feet high, but he feels . . .
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January 12, 2007 01:37 PM EST --
The morning of my thirteenth birthday I stood in the family bathroom, my panties in my hands. Frost carved symbols across the window. The mirror weeped with condensation. I stared at the coming winter, . . .
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August 01, 2006 12:56 PM EDT --
My Kentucky grandmother kept a small cedar box hidden beneath the lace ruffles skirting her bed. I found it playing hide and seek with my sisters, my stomach pressed into the dust-covered worn floorboards. . . .
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September 12, 2006 04:28 PM EDT --
I live with two birds. Ramses the African Grey is a free-range parrot. He thinks he's a dog. He follows Suzie around the house, perches on one leg at the edge of the dog bed, grooms Suzie's long . . .
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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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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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April 02, 2007 08:06 AM EDT --
The Las Vegas People's Flea Market runs every Saturday and Sunday morning through the year, regardless of weather. My son, age 12, calls it the Communist Junk Swap. Once a month I haul bags of forgotten . . .
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August 16, 2007 09:47 AM EDT --
Amy Cohen is best known for her work as a writer on television shows like "Caroline in the City" and "Spin City." Amy recently published a memoir, The Late Bloomer's . . .
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June 10, 2008 12:10 PM EDT --
I read a forum post about the power of the avocado seed. It seems that some adventurous folks grind their avocado seeds into fiber-rich smoothies accented with various greens and fruits. Avocado . . .
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June 20, 2008 09:59 AM EDT --
One of the artists paints my garage wall.
Two years ago, taggers hit the side of my garage that faces one of my New Mexican town's alleys, hit it with white aerosol spray in the shape . . .
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November 26, 2007 09:22 AM EST --
"That seems like a lot of hard work."
A boy in wrinkled school uniform gave Louis Jencka a wary glance. Jencka, an eighth-grader at Rio Gallinas Public Charter School, leaned against a gnarled . . .
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