The day after I told my husband I wanted a divorce, I packed my bag with my Perler-bead boy, two pairs of overpriced Lulu shorts, two sports bras, underwear, two sundresses, two bras with matching panties that I'd bought the week before, and my toothbrush.
Before I left, my 14-year-old gave me something she'd made with Perler beads, a little boy playing soccer.
"We're carrying crochet bikinis embellished with shells and beading; lots of strings and beads and low-slung boy shorts.
A rosary of maroon beads dangled between the boy's legs, faintly ticking, as he rocked in his recliner.
Dr. Carpenter obtained more of the boy's beads and tested them in a mass spectrometer, a device that helps identify chemical compounds.
It was then that Dr. Carpenter learned that the boy had vomited beads before and after going into a shallow coma.
Night Life Just Bead It Devendra Banhart, the original poster boy for freak folk's updating of sixties psych-folk arcana, has matured into a fine crooner.
In the ensuing quiet, the sound of his boy working the polished rosary beads between his rough, scaly fingers distracted Drummond from the social worker's questions.
She used to tell you that it was your singing that made the dough rise, remember?" Drummond turned back to his workbench and listened to the rain, and to the boy praying and telling the beads.
Girls received fashion beads and craft kits; boys a variety of games.
In the bar's main concourse, young women swaddled in Iris Apfel beads shuffled around with boys in punk jackets to the Ronettes and early Pulp.
