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Tag Archives: Barbara Bentley

Celebrating Over a Quarter Million Visitors from Over 125 Countries!

April 20, 2012by Anne Caroline Drake 1 Comment

This weekend I’m celebrating the quarter million visitor milestone for Navigating Unchartered Waters.  The little blog that started out with just 20 visitors/day on V-Day, 2009 has grown up.  Visitors now […]

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Journey to Joy (J2J)

Artist’s Date: Pike Place Market with Barbara Bentley

August 29, 2010by Anne Caroline Drake 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 […]

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Artists’ Date: Barbara Bentley at Pike Place Market

June 7, 2010by Anne Caroline Drake 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 […]

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Journey to Joy (J2J)

V-Day 2010: Celebrating My Blog’s First Anniversary

February 14, 2010by Anne Caroline Drake 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 […]

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Survive Thrive Joy

California: V-Day Call to Action & New Legal Right for DV Survivors

October 19, 2009by Anne Caroline Drake 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 […]

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DV in the News

Litigation Abuse & Judicial Misconduct, 101

August 20, 2009by Anne Caroline Drake 28 Comments

Where do you turn and to whom do you ask for help when you experience litigation abuse and/or judicial misconduct?

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Litigation Abuse

Michael Vick & the NFL: He paid the price for abusing dogs, but NFL stars who abuse women get a pass.

August 17, 2009by Anne Caroline Drake 3 Comments

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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Narcissists & Bullies

The Admiral’s Wife: Barbara Bentley on BlogTalkRadio

August 14, 2009by Anne Caroline Drake 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 […]

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Life Rafts

Bravo, Barbara Bentley: Paul H. Chapman Award Winner!

August 3, 2009by Anne Caroline Drake 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 […]

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Life Rafts

Barbara Bentley: Dance with the Devil

June 8, 2009by Anne Caroline Drake 9 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.

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