by Birdie Jaworski
Member since:
July 30, 2006

I'm in actual print!! Thanks to Lloyd and Gather...

December 11, 2006 04:22 PM EST (Updated: December 11, 2006 05:32 PM EST)
views: 145 | rating: 10/10 (21 votes) | comments: 51
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 for giving me the confidence in my work to begin submitting things to publishers, and a special hug and kiss and thanks to Lloyd, who told me flat out to send Accidental Joy to places where my story may help others.
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Comments: 51

Congratulations, Birdie. That's terrific.
♯ ♪ Dec 11, 2006, 4:28pm EST
Hey! Congratulations!
Paul G. Dec 11, 2006, 4:28pm EST
Congrats Bird. Nice to see one of our number recognized (deservedly). Write On!
julian 'blighted karma' three Dec 11, 2006, 4:29pm EST
So proud of you I don't know what to say. Heck, I was already that proud of you.
Thank you for being, Sunshine. All my best to you - j
Lydia O. Dec 11, 2006, 4:29pm EST
YAY! Birdie, we're all so proud of you! Are you going to send a copy to your birth daughter?
Kristina G. Dec 11, 2006, 4:29pm EST
Congratulations!
Paul L. Dec 11, 2006, 4:36pm EST
Congrats Birdie!
Congratulations, Birdie.
Fran S. Dec 11, 2006, 4:44pm EST
CONGRATS to you Birdie!! That is awesome news and must be a wonderful feeling to see your story in print!!
Birdie Jaworski Dec 11, 2006, 4:48pm EST
I'm so excited about it! I'm going to send a copy to my birth daughter for sure. There's a photo of me and my boys and my girl taken last summer, not long after I met my daughter for the first time. This has inspired me to send more stories here and there, and to keep writing!
Sandy (Site Psychic™) Knauer Dec 11, 2006, 4:54pm EST
Congratulations, Birdie!! I hope you enjoy the same excitement on your second, tenth, and thousandth times to see your name in print.
couldn't happen to a nicer person or someone more deserving..

now..... (wait for it.....)............get back to work!

;)
Madame Donna C. Dec 11, 2006, 5:56pm EST
Congratulations Birdie! Great news!
Carla G. Dec 11, 2006, 6:26pm EST
That's great, Birdie! Your story will inspire many I'm sure. I love the title.
Michelle W. Dec 11, 2006, 6:40pm EST
Congrats! You deserve it.
Aniko     Dec 11, 2006, 7:11pm EST
Congratulations, Birdie!
Kevin (''The SiteWizard'') V. Dec 11, 2006, 7:12pm EST
That's great news Birdie!! It is a moving story, and very deserving of being in print.

Congratulations!!

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Michelle R. Dec 11, 2006, 8:27pm EST
Congratulations!!!
Ruth MacGill Dec 11, 2006, 9:15pm EST
Wonderful! Congratulations! We always knew you were good. You deserve it.
hey send me a photocopy huh???
Dawn M Dec 11, 2006, 11:47pm EST
Congratulations Birdie. What wonderful news...and so well deserved!
Kathryn E. Dec 11, 2006, 11:56pm EST
Congrats, Birdie. You REALLY deserve this, you are such a great writer. And an inspiration to many here on Gather, too, I might add.
La Bellota Dec 12, 2006, 12:03am EST
HuRrAyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!! Congrats!!!!!!

It was only a matter of time. (((hugs))))
Carol P. Dec 12, 2006, 1:32am EST
Congratulations on the first of many (I'm sure) published pieces!
CANDY k. Dec 12, 2006, 1:36am EST
Birdie, you get a standing ovation.
Martha Jette, Author/Editor Dec 12, 2006, 1:55am EST
Awesome! Congratulations, Birdie.
Mary C Legg Dec 12, 2006, 3:39am EST
congrats--

but we're all still waiting for the last instalment of shooting the Avon Lady-- are you dead or resurrected over there? We are hungry for your stories-- on the net and in print. You could write them on toilet paper and we'd all troop down to the store and buy it

which reminds me, you can sell them to a coffee company and they put stories on their cans and labels

heck, you can write anything. you're terrific
d g. Dec 12, 2006, 6:37am EST
Congratulations! I will have to wait until my lunch break to read your story, see you then.
Patrick T. Dec 12, 2006, 10:10am EST
Birdie,
You will remember this for ever, but this is just the beginning for you and your beautiful work. Congratulations.
Μόףףý ● ķ ~ Dec 12, 2006, 10:26am EST
Congratulations Birdie! :)
Dolphi D. Dec 12, 2006, 11:36am EST
Congratulations Birdie! Your great story got well deserved exposure.
barb w. Dec 12, 2006, 11:37am EST
Another congratulations, Birdie. Terrific news.
Fantastic news! Congratulations!
Apryl Just Apryl Dec 12, 2006, 12:51pm EST
Congradulations
Virginia M. Dec 12, 2006, 1:09pm EST
Congratulations Birdie! I'm so glad for you!
David Rochester Dec 12, 2006, 9:12pm EST
Ah, how lovely. Congratulations!
Marsha B. Dec 12, 2006, 10:10pm EST
Congratulations! You are such a marvelous writer. This is most well deserved. :-)
Sean Paul Kelley Dec 12, 2006, 11:09pm EST
Congrats! That is wonderful news!
and aren't you writing for the local paper now????
d g. Dec 13, 2006, 12:26pm EST
Damn that was an incredible story and so well written, I could feel cobwebs beginning to form around my own stale emotions being swept away.

As someone who survived abuse as a child, struggling to become a human being has been a log curve climb. I'm at the soft end of the slope decades later, but still struggling with normality.

The ease of normal being of broad mind and no substance helps.

Wonderful article, certainly worthy of being in print.

Look forward to enjoying my subscription to your work here.

And finally, thanks Lloyd for pointing Birdy out to me.

Okay one last final word

DAMN!
loretta s. Dec 14, 2006, 7:34am EST
Congratulations to a highly deserving author! And I hope that this is just the beginning of your rise to fame (and, dare we hope, fortune)!

Yeah, I'm with Curmy -- "back to work!" *hugs*
Heather B. Dec 16, 2006, 9:33pm EST
I'm so happy for you! I know how good that feels. Frame it. Actually, ask for them to send you an extra copy so you can have one to tote around and share and one to keep crisp and clean at home :0) CONGRATULATIONS, you talented woman, you!!
Pearl 2 Dec 17, 2006, 10:49pm EST
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HGM Moya Goatley Dec 18, 2006, 5:13am EST
What Pear said! I'm so happy for you. Moya
Dannielle S. Dec 18, 2006, 4:06pm EST
Birdie, you earned your way here: you had to live this life and be able to turn it all into the amazing writing you share, through your own strength and honesty, but mostly through your wide-open heart. So many others could have had one half of the formula without the other. You are so very deserving of all this success and much more to come. :-)
Richard Melendez Dec 20, 2006, 12:47am EST
Birdie... I'm so proud of you and no one could be more deserving. You are a captivating writer and my eyes were captured from the very first time I read one of your wonderful pieces. Every one of your writings is publishable so submit them all. Soon everyone will know of your amazing talent.
Rossie Indira Dec 21, 2006, 1:53am EST
Congratulations Birdie! I think you will always be excited seeing your name in print. Look forward for more and more stories from you. Big hugs from Jakarta!
Anita D. Dec 27, 2006, 1:43pm EST
Great to hear.
Beryl Singleton Bissell Dec 29, 2006, 5:05pm EST
Bravo my friend. Now, what about some of those other stories we've been pressing you on ... the ones you shared with us on the boat. Did Elinor Lipman tell you how much she enjoyed the one she read?
Erin O'Riordan Mar 25, 2008, 6:44pm EDT
Let me just add my "Congratulations" to the pile.

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