Be There: Mother’s Day Vigil in Washington, D.C.
Nancy Carroll is a PAS mother who has the leadership instincts of Gandhi and the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. She has experienced more than her fair share of brutal abuse and hard knocks, but she keeps rolling. Literally. After her leg was shattered, she got in her wheelchair and kept on rolling to … Read more
Yippee Skippy! The Little Blog that Could Reaches 100,000 Visitors!
At 1:00 this morning, Navigating Uncharted Waters had its 100,000th visitor! I am thrilled and profoundly humbled. Before I start celebrating, I want to take a moment thank all my subscribers and loyal visitors for your support, interest, comments, and inspiration. When I started this blog two years ago, I never dreamed I would meet so … Read more
Bravo: “Silenced” by Rikki King, Everett (WA) Daily Herald
Silenced. Too often, domestic violence victims reach out for help, but can’t get the aid they need before it’s too late. – Rikki King The Daily Herald This is the headline and photo that stopped me cold in Freddie’s (Fred Meyer, a division of Kroger) yesterday. It was on the front page of … Read more
Georgia Gunzer: Betrayed by Pierce County, WA Courts
Georgia Gunzer’s murder on Saturday in Tacoma barely made the news. Mark Fulghum, official spokesperson for the Tacoma police department, chalked it up to just another domestic violence murder. Too bad. So sad. Oh, well. He might have gotten away with the callous indifference but for Ms. Gunzer’s loyal friends. The Tacoma News-Tribune, the infamous lap-dog … 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
American Mothers Political Party Launched Today!
We will never shut up, give up, or go away! Today is the 162nd anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony launched the women’s movement to prevent domestic violence. It never caught on with the suffragettes or the feminists or NOW. But, the Battered Mothers Custody Conference, Mama … Read more
Celebrating 50,000 Visitors with New Look & Expanded Features
When I started this website, I never dreamed that 50,000 folks would visit! Wow! I’m humbled ~ especially since the shizza in my life this past year has presented some fierce obstacles. My father passed away five years ago today. It seemed like an auspicious day ~ Bastille Day ~ to sail away into uncharted waters. … Read more
KCBS-TV: James Hosking Defeats Judge Lemkau
San Bernadino County, CA voters kicked Judge Robert Lemkau to the curb today according to KCBS-TV in Los Angeles: In the closely watched San Bernardino County election for Superior Court Judge 11, James Hosking was declared the winner with only one percent of the votes cast. He was leading incumbent Robert Lemkau 65-35 percent. Lemkau caused … Read more
Bravo! PAS Mothers’ Silent White House Vigil on Mother’s Day, 2010
History was made yesterday in front of the White House. Mother’s Day is inordinately painful for fierce warrior mothers who have lost custody of their children because they tried to protect them from abuse. Parental alienation syndrome (PAS) is an insidious manipulation of the legal system as an instrument of abuse via brutal custody battles. … Read more
Erin S. Greenawald: Oregon’s New Domestic Violence Czar
John Kroger, Oregon’s Attorney General, must not have done a basic Google search before he hired Erin S. Greenawald to be his domestic violence czar. Or, he has his head up his ass about domestic violence. I’m guessing it was both. A few days before making the appointment, Susan R. Gerber, one of Kroger’s deputies, pleaded … Read more
