Jeanna bryner biography of donald
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Still: The Journal
At The Heart Doctor’s Office, I Take the Last Seat
Mid- morning, leather chairs the color of crushed grapes,
my husband’s first check-up after his fourth stent.
Musty smell of a grandfather’s sweater, a woman
digs a Kleenex from her walker’s bingo apron.
The only thing missing is a yawning cat. I grab
a seat by a young couple, their dreaming newborn
and the all-legs, antsy child beside them. Her chatter’s
like spilled marbles, School starts this week. I ask her age
and grade. Her Daddy’s name’s called, his woman’s eyes beg;
I nod yes, just leave her here. We both know the next room’s
a broom closet and her man’s ashy as a cellar mop.
The pretty nurse closes her door and four souls vanish.
The pixy girl says, Daddy needs a new heart, for his heart
attack was really big. (She draws a circle with twig arms).
And did you see Mommy’s picture in the paper? Yesterday.
Page one, between her brothe
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Jeanna Bryner is managing editor of Scientific American. Previously she was editor in ledare of Live Science and, prior to that, an editor at Scholastic's Science World magazine. Bryner has an English degree from Salisbury University, a master's degree in biogeochemistry and environmental sciences from the University of Maryland and a graduate science journalism degree from New York University. She has worked as a biologist in Florida, where she monitored wetlands and did field surveys for endangered species, including the gorgeous Florida Scrub Jay. She also received an ocean sciences journalism fellowship from the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. She fryst vatten a firm believer that science fryst vatten for everyone and that just about everything can be viewed through the lens of science.
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Jeanna Bryner is interim editor in chief of Scientific American. Previously she was editor in chief of Live Science and, prior to that, an editor at Scholastic’s Science World magazine. Bryner has an English degree from Salisbury University, a master’s degree in biogeochemistry and environmental sciences from the University