The following is a guest post by Betty Jean Craige, author of Downstream. If you would like to write a guest post on my blog, please send me an e-mail at contact@cecilesune.com. On Thursday, July 25, 2013, I was informed that the column I’d written for two years in the local newspaper of Athens, Georgia, was being discontinued. The column, titled “Cosmo Talks,” featured my loquacious African Grey parrot Cosmo and…