Dharmashanti Kelleher:  

Life I am fulfilling my long-held dream of being a professional writer. My first book "Fight the Misery Conspiracy" is available on Amazon and I am writing my second one, tentatively titled "Life After Sobriety". After graduation, life became an adventure. I got married to a sweet gal, but I had a dark secret. I wasn't a guy. For reasons still not apparent, I always identified as female. Eventually, my wife and I parted ways. Then life REALLY became an adventure. I started living as a woman and eventually had reassignment surgery. Along the way, I met a guy and we fell in love. Unfortunately, he and I both had issues. Both of us were becoming raging alcoholics. The years of hiding my true self, of being ashamed of who I was had taken it's toll. My ex became an abusive rage-aholic. I became a manipulative codependent. I eventually got sober (following a suicide attempt) and left him behind. I realized that on top of being transgender, I am also a lesbian. Hardly a surprise since all of my drinking was at gay/lesbian bars. I eventually met a beautiful woman and we had a wedding. That was nine blissful years ago. She is so a...Expand for more