Artist’s Date: Pike Place Market with Barbara Bentley
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 29, 2010 · Leave a Comment
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
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Artists’ Date: Barbara Bentley at Pike Place Market
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on June 7, 2010 · 2 Comments
Barbara Bentley, author of A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath, and her husband Rex Johnston were in Seattle last week. The two met as co-workers in 1969 and reconnected at the Justice for Murder Victims dinner dance in San Francisco. Barbara described the end of the evening in … Read more
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V-Day 2010: Celebrating My Blog’s First Anniversary
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on February 14, 2010 · 7 Comments
Happy V-Day! A year ago I embarked on a grand adventure. In my wildest dreams, I never thought I would have 17,890 visitors my first year. My humble little web site is about as obscure as it can get, and I write about an issue most folks would prefer to see swept under the carpet. … Read more
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California: V-Day Call to Action & New Legal Right for DV Survivors
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on October 19, 2009 · 1 Comment
Maria Shriver was on the Today Show this morning promoting the Shriver Report about the changing role of women in America. It is hard to reconcile how this feminist First Lady can keep silent while her Governator husband Arnold Schwarzenegger is closing domestic violence shelters in California. Eve Ensler took him to school in the Huffington … Read more
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Litigation Abuse & Judicial Misconduct, 101
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 20, 2009 · 19 Comments
Where do you turn and to whom do you ask for help when you experience litigation abuse and/or judicial misconduct?
Michael Vick & the NFL: He paid the price for abusing dogs, but NFL stars who abuse women get a pass.
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 17, 2009 · 1 Comment
Michael Vick was on 60 Minutes last night as part of his obligatory “mea culpa” media blitz. Is he sincere? He did the time. He said it cost him $135 million. He said he was the person to blame.
That’s as far as my mind got before it did a 180 flip. Why?
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The Admiral’s Wife: Barbara Bentley on BlogTalkRadio
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 14, 2009 · 3 Comments
On Wednesday evening, August 12, 2009, Barbara Bentley was BettyJean Kling’s guest on BlogTalkRadio to talk about her book A Dance with the Devil: A True Story of Marriage to a Psychopath. If you click here, you will be able to find The Majority United for Women’s Rights ”On Demand” options to play the broadcast or … Read more
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Bravo, Barbara Bentley: Paul H. Chapman Award Winner!
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on August 3, 2009 · Leave a Comment
Barbara Bentley, author of Dance with the Devil, will receive one of six of the 2009 Paul H. Chapman Awards by the Foundation for Improvement of Justice on September 26 in Atlanta. In addition to the award, she will receive $10,000. Ms. Bentley will receive the award because of her work to change the divorce laws in California which … Read more
Barbara Bentley: Dance with the Devil
Posted by Anne Caroline Drake on June 8, 2009 · 6 Comments
Barbara’s charming, fascinating, and charismatic late husband presented himself as a retired Navy rear admiral and the descendent of two infamous admirals named Perry. They were VIP guests of the Navy during Fleet Week in San Francisco. He had war medals including the Congressional Medal of Honor. They were invited to President George H.W. Bush’s inauguration and the inaugural balls. The only part of his story that was true was that he was the black sheep son of Admiral Perry.
The truth was that he was a con man wanted by the FBI for impersonating a US Navy officer.
