Birdie's Favorite Personal Stories

These are just a few of my personal stories, for more you can click on the link for all personal stories at Beauty Dish, or you can peruse my OurStory Personal Stories site.

And don't forget to read my funny Real Life Avon Lady Adventure Stories!

Accidental Joy
Meeting my birth daughter

Love Letter to Star Trek
This is my favorite story, bar none.

A Grumpy Pregnant Woman Meets Kilgore Trout
A writer meets a grumpy pregnant woman (me) on Indiana backroads. My tribue to Kurt Vonnegut.

Richer than the Sum of my Skirt
My boys teach me a lesson or two about being poor in New Mexico

36 Days Past Solstice.
I visit Stonefridge - a Stonehenge-like creation made of dead fridges in Santa Fe.

Best Friends
My son and I both find best friends in the most unlikely place.

Descansos
Descansos are the holy markers left on the side of the road for those who die.

Extrasolar
I teach guitar at the local school two days a week!

Year of Yes
Some years are tougher than others...

Ted Budgie
One evil parakeet...

Friday Mornings, for Ada and Kevin
My long-time pen pal and her boy sent to Iraq

Arts and Crafts and Elvis
The summer my mom made me take Arts and Crafts at the stupid town hall

The Seat of Infinity
My world of zazen

Sanctuario de Singularity
A visit to a place of healing, then a place of death

Balancing the Energy
I get a tattoo

Gateway
My favorite love affair

Hey! Klingon's have feelings, too!
My son, 8 years old, recites his own Star Trek pledge... and gets suspended!

Champagne Bubble Flock
Singing a bird home

Pacemakers
I ran a marathon with my son on his 18th birthday

The Day Scotty Saved The Future
The day we met a real Star Trek character...

Devil in the Angel's Playground
My best friend, Patrick, and his memorial service

Breakfast at Tiffs
The summer before Patrick died, he went incommunicado

Pot Luck Tao
Smoking medical marijuana with my dying friend
Part 1
Part 2

Catholic Charities contacts me about my birth daughter

Open House
Memories of my first marriage

Crime Doesn't Pay
Birdie steals a watermelon

Vegetable Dreams
Memories of my Gramma

Cape Fear
Mom, Dad, me and my sisters, and Cape Hatteras

Trading Letters with Myself
Writing with my birth daughter for the first time

One Candy Cane Regret
The things you wish you did

Beekeepers
Frozen bees at my childhood home

Beads
Mysteries of life

Agua Caliente
Ensenada Birthday Travels

Foggy Mountain Breakdown
I see a ghost

Subdivision Canyon Mural
The story of Comet Man

A Thicket of Clarity
I get kissed by a zen priest