Angels and Earthworms

How many big mistakes can you make and still end up with an amazing life? A whole lot, it turns out, especially if the Goddess has your back. 



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.