I’m grateful that I found a program in a 12 step recovery fellowship that shows me how to stay clean and sober. I’m grateful that my program has shown me the way to faith in a Higher Power, because the renewing of that faith has changed my way of life. And I’ve found happiness and [...]
Being Gay Saved My Life: The Art of Moving from Fear to Love is an honest and lovely illustrated memoir by artist and ContagiousLLC.com founder Diane Koziol Krueger. Being Gay Saved My Life follows Koziol Krueger from a child growing up in a disconnected environment and the years of repressing her sexual orientation, to final [...]
Let’s pretend for a moment that getting involved with someone at work is a good idea. Let’s ignore the fact that romantic relationships at work can cause serious legal and social issues. Most companies even have a policy against it. But Hollywood has no such policy. Nope, if we follow the example of Tinsel Town, [...]
This week, I had the great and hilarious pleasure of reviewing Rabbi Andrea Myers’s memoir, The Choosing, about Myers’s life as a rabbi, a lesbian, a partner, and a convert to Judaism from Lutheranism. Key themes are the sincerity, gentleness, and humor used to follow Myers’s own interfaith family (mom’s a Catholic, dad’s a Lutheran) [...]
I gave her favorite blue chew toy to my neighbor’s six-week-old puppy. We donated her food bowl. Lady the beagle has been gone about one year now. I’m used to her absence, but things I learned from her still remain. Communication: Lady found ways to talk to me. For example, one night I was reading [...]
As usual on car trips, my teenage white beagle Lady was half in, half out of the passenger window, long white ears dancing in the breeze, the wind folding her face back into a big ole’ grin. It would have been a perfect fall day had we not been on the way to the vet’s [...]
If it was ever a time to check out and stop trying to “live in the moment,” it was when I heard the vet’s words. “She has cancer.” I stood in the office, looking down at my small, white-and-faded-brown, 14-year-old beagle Lady who, unconcerned about her fate, had just peed on the floor and was [...]
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