Join me as we travel together on the road called "Aging." I will be sharing my personal experiences with you and offer ideas on how we can better navigate the complex byways of our older years. Grief, healing, generations, ancestors, and more.
For a time, I perched myself on a flat rock, comparing my life with the Guyandotte River. Just as its tributaries replenish it daily, changing it in some small—sometimes great—degree, so have the day-to-day occurrences of life changed me. Like the ri
Ex-Avon Lady delivers the makeup in her funny door-to-door memoir!
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Birdie Jaworski lives in Las Vegas, New Mexico, with her two young boys, two parrots, two dogs, and two iguanas.
Birdie teaches 7th and 8th grade at Rio Gallinas Public Charter School, and writes for the Las Vegas Optic.
Birdie is the author of the Avon Lady Memoir: Don't Shoot! I'm Just the Avon Lady!
Beauty Dish, the blog on which this memoir is based, has been featured in the New York Times, Time Magazine, the Wall Street Journal, and Positive Thinking magazine in addition to numerous other media outlets.
Accomplishments
Birdie’s stories have appeared in many online and print journals, including Good Housekeeping, The San Diego Reader, the Las Vegas Times, the Las Vegas Optic, Adoption Today, MiPOesias, Gather.com, BlogHer, The Nervous Breakdown, and the Virtual Occoquan.
Praise for Birdie's work:
"What Birdie discovered about people – and herself – went more than skin deep." - Positive Thinking Magazine
"Her posts draw more than 1,000 hits a day from readers fascinated by the woman who buys antiwrinkle cream for her pet monkey Hubert or by the wife who orders Bust-Sculpt Contouring ointment for her husband, who ingests it as an alternative to Viagra." - Time Magazine
"Birdie Jaworski, an Avon Products Inc. representative in rural Las Vegas, N.M., has developed one of the most popular blogs hosted at news Web site Salon.com... One reason for Ms. Jaworski's popularity: her unvarnished reviews of Avon products, which she tries before peddling to customers." - Wall Street Journal
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