Blitz Oprah’s Producers: Color Me Butterfly and Saving Promise Grassroots Campaign
Oprah’s last season launches on September 13, 2010. I’m one of those ultimate viewers who has been watching since day one when her show was A.M. Chicago. My life shifted on Maundy Thursday, 1998 after the taping of her show with Iyanla Vanzant. I was hoping Oprah wouldn’t pick Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen … Read more
Please Vote: Jimmie Briggs for GQ’s Better Men Better World Search
V-Day’s Eve Ensler is asking us to vote for V-Men’s Jimmie Briggs in GQ’s The Better Men Better World search. Mr. Briggs is a gentle giant, shy, award-winning journalist who co-founded The Man Up Campaign, a global movement to end violence against women and girls: Most men don’t rape women, they don’t hurt women … Read more
Joke: Maxine on GPS and PMS
Question: What do you get when you mix GPS with PMS? Answer: A crazy bitch who will find you! Share this: Print Facebook Email Digg Reddit StumbleUpon
Artist’s Date: Pike Place Market with Barbara Bentley
Barbara Bentley, author of A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath, is a great photographer as well as writer and wine maker. She and her husband Rex Johnston visited Pike’s Place Market during their “rain-cation” to the Pacific Northwest during May and June. These are some of her photos … Read more
Artist’s Date: Field’s End Conference at Kiana Lodge
Field’s End is a writing community based on Bainbridge Island, Washington. It was founded by best selling authors who live in the Puget Sound region. Every April they have a writing conference at Kiana Lodge on the shores of Agate Passage. I have been blessed to be able to attend four of the five conferences. … Read more
Artist’s Date: Hurricane Ridge & Strait of San Juan de Fuca
Hurricane Ridge is in the Olympic National Park in Washington State. The elevation is 5242 feet. This photo is at the summit overlooking Sequim and the Strait of San Juan de Fuca. The clouds obscure the view of Canada. The drive to the top was a strain on my car’s engine. On the drive down, this white-knuckled … Read more
Artist’s Date: Cape Flattery & Strait of San Juan de Fuca
Tatoosh Island in Cape Flattery is off the northwest tip of the continental United States. When life hands me lemons and I have a horrendous PTSD episode, I find it helps to connect with the Strait of San Juan de Fuca which divides the United States and Canada. Sir Francis Drake sailed here when he … Read more
Please Support and Vote for Rep. Dave Reichert (R-WA) and Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA)
Sen. Patty Murray in Bothell, WA Sen. Patty Murray (D-WA) came to her home town of Bothell, WA to kick off her campaign for re-election. She joked with the crowd that she thought her experiences as a teacher of four-year-old kids was good training for the Senate. I appreciated her humorous candor because I’ve discovered that great leadership and solid parenting require the … Read more
Injustice in Oz: Are Judge David Debenham and GAL M. Jill Dykes Acting in the Best Interest of the Child or Engaged in a Cover-up?
Claudine Dombrowski and her daugher got caught up in a Kansas-style tornado of injustice and pretext on Friday. There are so many abusive narcissistic wizards in this courtroom catastrophe that I felt like Dorothy in Oz when I heard what happened. You Decide: Incompetence, Pretext, Cover-Up, or Best Interests of the Child? In … Read more
Stop 14 Years of Injustice ~ Be There: August 20 @ 9:00 AM, Shawnee County District Court, Topeka, Kansas
Claudine Dombrowski Listen up, Judge David Debenham in Shawnee District Court in Topeka, Kansas! I am going to do everything in my power to continue to pack your court room with people wearing purple and white until you stop Halleck Richardson’s manipulation of your court as an instrument of abuse. And, I’m going to ask other bloggers to … Read more
























