a memoir of alcoholism and addiction, faith and family, hope and humor by Dina Kucera

Dina Kucera was born and raised in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After completing a project to collect and identify fifty insects, she graduated from the ninth grade and left school for good. It seemed like a good idea at the time. Her first job was a paper route, and she has worked as a maid, bartender, waitress, and grocery store checker. She recently left her job as a checker to become a writer.

She has also been a stand-up comic for twenty years, for which she receives payment ranging from a small amount of money to a very, very small amount of money. When it comes to awards and recognition, she was once nominated for a Girl Scout sugar cookie award, but she never actually received the award because her father decided to stop at a bar instead of going to the award ceremony. Dina waited on the curb outside the bar, repeatedly saying to panhandlers, “Sorry. I don’t have any money. I’m seven.” Dina is married with three daughters, one stepson, and one grandson. She currently lives in Phoenix, Arizona.

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1. holli.

   Read your book covet to cover in a day. I could not put it down. Probably because it hits home for me.. only difference is my 40-something year old mother isn’t a child. Thanks for the hope! Good work girl.

   December 1, 2010 at 6:27 pm

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2. Triah

   I’m a dork – It’s Trish not Triah..hahah

   November 4, 2010 at 2:50 am

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3. Triah

   Currently laughing my ass off to your book. And I’ve got to tellya…My life doesn’t suck as much as I thought it did prior to reading your book! Thanks for sticking with it and providing me with some comic relief from the mundane life I seem to lead.

   November 4, 2010 at 2:50 am

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