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What's New In the BlogHer Life Blogroll? Life goes on with new careers, blondes, August blues, thankfullness

8/19/07 4:30am by Birdie Jaworski
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Hurricane Dean is thrashing Jamaica. Courageous firefighters lost their life in a raging blaze near Ground Zero. The news is full of scary events, full of murder and mayhem and politicians pounding their chests. But life goes on, surprises us, delights us, hands us moments mundane, precious, even in the midst of the most unsettling news.  Read more >

Are You a Late Bloomer? A story and an interview with author Amy Cohen

8/14/07 9:15pm by Birdie Jaworski
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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 as tall as a man. His protruding eyes burn my back, transmit an ancient message of sure-footed joy. You will dance and you will like it, he mutters. You will run and you will jump.  Read more >

Words in a Row: Shattered

8/12/07 10:14pm by Birdie Jaworski
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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 broken, as painful as his swollen skin. I wanted to sign his cast, the blue sheath that hid the parallel scars, but he refused my pen. "I don't want any signatures. I just want everyone to leave me alone."  Read more >

Words in a Row: Chewbacca Rides Shotgun

8/5/07 5:32pm by Birdie Jaworski
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The clouds that blanket the Plains of San Augustin rarely notice the science traveler, the Mescalero Apache, the patchwork family with a bag of marshmallows and one unused match. The clouds push from Arizona toward Texas, push across the reservation, the dried lake flats, push past the twenty-seven radio antennas without a second glance. Every time I drive past the installation, I feel those wandering jewels mock me, tell me I don't belong in this wilderness.  Read more >

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Full Name
Birdie Jaworski
Member Since
April 2006
About Me: 

Birdie Jaworski has stories published in Good Housekeeping, the San Diego Reader and Adoption Today, as well as stories published in many other online and print magazines. In addition to writing, Birdie’s stories have been featured on NPR.

Birdie sold Avon door-to-door and wrote the popular (now defunct) blog, Beauty Dish, which was featured in the NYT, the Wall Street Journal, and Time Magazine, as well as many other print and online news media sources. Birdie currently blogs at Camp Strange.

Birdie started a Northeastern New Mexico arts, culture, and entertainment magazine, GALLINAS, which has won several awards.

Birdie’s memoir, Don't Shoot! I'm Just the Avon Lady! is based on her experience selling Avon in Southern California prior to moving to New Mexico, as well as her experience meeting the daughter she gave up for adoption twenty years ago. Don't Shoot! I'm Just the Avon Lady! has been nominated for a Pushcart Award.

Birdie’s collection of real-life short stories set in rural New Mexico, My Tiny Vegas, was published in October, 2009, and includes stories about the secret Scientology mesa outside of Las Vegas, New Mexico, as well as heartwarming stories about green chile, santeros, and life near the edge of the Great Plains.

Profession: 
Mom. Writer. Philosopher. Dancer.
Location: 
Las Vegas... New Mexico, baby!
BlogHer Conference '07: 
I attended

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