How many big mistakes can you make and still end up with an amazing life? Quite a lot, it turns out, if the Goddess has your back…
A misfit little Jewish girl
Lorraine Segal is a misfit little Jewish girl growing up in a conservative Christian community: smart, funny, fierce, and utterly miserable. But a loving Goddess shows up just in time. With persistence and humor, Lorraine learns to embrace her mistakes and herself, moving from desolation to miracles. Along the way, she accidentally yet actively participates in major cultural movements of the late 20th and early 21st centuries, including the Berkeley peace movement, radical feminism, gay rights, the AIDS crisis, twelve-step addiction recovery, with bonus adventures in teaching ESL, lesbian ballroom dancing, and surviving mobbing in toxic academia. Through stories both poignant and hilarious, Lorraine shares her progress from the cramped confinement of her 1950s childhood all the way to her rich, layered life today, as a happily married lesbian, conflict transformation expert, and writer.
Why Angels and Earthworms?
From therapy session number 203 (approximately)…
“But, Ahbi, I don’t want to keep making so many mistakes over and over. I wanted to be an angel of light!” I lamented.
Ahbi, my therapist, pinned me with her gaze. “Then what would you do here on the planet with all the rest of us earthworms?”
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Bio
After surviving the 50s and 60s, as well as twenty years in toxic academia as a tenured professor, Lorraine Segal was inspired to started her own business, Conflict Remedy, happily teaching, coaching, blogging and consulting around workplace conflict transformation. She is addicted to reading novels and enjoys walking and hiking in beautiful Northern California, where she lives with her wife. Her cartoon muse, Bookie, insisted that she write this book. Angels and Earthworms, a memoir of her unexpected journey to love, joy, and miracles, is about her transformation from miserable self-doubt to self-acceptance, true love, spiritual awareness, and right livelihood.
Buy the Book from Your Choice of the Following:
A delightfully quirky, transformational memoir.
The stories in this memoir are a series of sparkling jewels, funny and poignant by turns.
Stories told with extraordinary candor and eloquence, which become the magic and mirror we can all draw from as we navigate our life’s journey.
Tender and laugh out loud funny. I felt wrapped in cherished memories and fascinating glimpses of LGBTQI cultural history.
Dear friends,
Welcome to the Bookie Chronicles! This is the place to get updates, interviews, and special offers for my memoir, Angels and Earthworms: An Unexpected Journey to Love, Joy, and Miracles.
With sign up, you will also receive a free printable page of forgiveness prayers. Forgiveness can lighten your heart and invite more miracles!
And, you will be the first to know about book #2, just starting to move from my heart and brain onto the page!
You deserve joy, love, and miracles, too!
Blessings,
Lorraine
