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   A RANDOM LIFE is a collection of essays, anecdotes, and monologues, written whilst exploring differing countries, cultures, and lifestyles. The rambling conversations follow the years Sarah Leamy spent traveling both alone, and sometimes with Daisy (the Duchess of a dog, a slightly overweight Border Collie). Occasionally hitch-hiking across the USA, riding various motorbikes, living out of the back of a pick-up truck and enjoying cheap train passes Sarah Leamy played with many modes of travel. Whether in Europe where she grew up, in the States, where she moved to in her twenties, or Central America in 2005, she travels simply because she is restless and curious. A Random Life explores her need to experience different ways of living, to push her limits and to hear other’s stories. These essays, thoughts, and observations reflect her varied experiences and the questioning that comes from a life on the road. There is the time she went to cut donw damaged trees in hurricane season on an island in Florida. Another chapter follows the motorbike ride across the States in order to teach clowning at the Michigan Womens Music festival. Sarah flew to Guatemala with a small daypack, thinking to settle and clown around with the local Mayan kids. Deportation is the subject of her chapter on immigration issues and the results of living underground for a few years in the States. Her love life, the obsessions and the struggles to build community with a partner are also quite openly and honestly depicted. 

 A RANDOM LIFE is a manuscript of 80,000 words approx. and has been edited by Jane Bernstein in 2005, and Gail Snyder in 2009. 

Photographs are available.

A RANDOM LIFE: FOCUS: Creative Non-fiction. Travelogues/ chronicles of the USA, Guatemala, and Europe. Women. Adult. Queer. Alternative/ Green lifestyles. Humor. Spirituality. Sexuality. Community. Memoirs. 

Testimonials include the following;

"A RANDOM LIFE is a very marketable story.  It has all of the necessary elements:  good characterization; interesting (and well-described) settings; authentic-sounding dialogue." Writers Literary Publishing Company. October 2005.

"Clowning around in Central America is very moving and very readable." Carol Carpenter (English Professor at the College of Santa Fe, Author of five young adult novels, screenplays and numerous articles.) November 2007

"I very much enjoyed your article on “Clowning Around in Central America.” What a wonderful thing you are doing for the people, especially children, of the world. My hat (don’t have a top hat at this point!) is off to you. Thank you for the work/play you do. It is an important contribution to the challenging world we find ourselves in today."  Barbara Doern Drew (Editor at the Eldorado Sun) April 2005.