J2J Day 10: Iyanla Vanzant on Oprah
I was on Oprah today. OK. Blink. You missed me. Several times. I was in the audience for almost all of Iyanla Vanzant’s twenty-two appearances on Oprah. I vividly recall the Maundy […]
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I’ve Finally Joined Facebook
Yes, I know. I’m about the last person in the United States to be on Facebook. I needed for Facebook to get better with privacy issues before it was safe […]
Saving Promise Comes to Seattle
Ginny Nicarthy, author of Getting Free: You Can End Abuse and Take Back Your Life and You can Be Free: An Easy-to-Read Handbook for Abused Women, kicked off L.Y. Marlow’s Saving Promise 10-city […]
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 […]
L.Y. Marlow: Saving Promise & COLOR ME BUTTERFLY
We are all beautiful and deserve to be loved without being harmed. – L.Y. Marlow L. Y. Marlow is a survivor. When domestic violence threatened her granddaughter Promise, she decided […]
Mel Gibson Retaliates with David Letterman’s Extortion Ploy: Abusive Criminals Morph Shields into Swords
Jurisprudence is getting turned upside down and inside out by attorneys representing abusive criminals. When did documenting evidence in a potential criminal case become a crime? When did engaging in out-of-court […]
Silent No More! Survivors’ Declaration of Independence from Domestic Tyranny
The Declaration of Independence was written on my family’s paper 234 years ago. It said all men are created equal. Abigail Adams infamously asked her husband John about the […]
Super Bowl to Super Jerk: Roethlisberger, Holmes, Hill, Bernard, Locklear, Etc.
The NFL Players Association made a big deal about joining the Justice Departments “List” of celebrities who pledged to prevent violence against women. Nobody from the Seattle Seahawks or […]
New Day ~ New Look: Navigating Uncharted Waters
Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It is about learning to dance in the rain. On Easter Monday, 1999, I spoke to the executive director of […]
Book Review: The Survivors Club
Ben Sherwood didn’t include child abuse or domestic violence survivors in his best-selling book, The Survivors Club: The Secrets and Science that Could Save Your Life. But, the Avon Foundation […]
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