Novelist, Author of SOMETHING TO BE BRAVE FOR
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, I hope you had a restful weekend. Now it’s the start of a new week, and I wanted to share more on the effects of domestic violence on children. They are the innocent victims that don’t understand what is happening—filled with fear, helplessness and self-blame—they try…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, It’s Friday and it feels like summer—amazing weather for November. I hope you have some relaxing plans for the weekend. Harry and I are going to the Farmer’s Market tomorrow to pick up some fresh vegetables, honey and fruit. This week was difficult for Harry who…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, To honor Domestic Violence Awareness month and to expose this epidemic, I wanted to include more statistics from an article that I read. Every 9 seconds a woman is battered in the United States. AMA, 1998, Georgia Department of Human Resources, 1999 Nearly 5.3 million intimate…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, Over the weekend, I watched the film SHADOW OF A DOUBT again on the old movie channel. My father loved 1940s black and white films and introduced me to them when I was a kid. On Saturday afternoons, he would take me to the movies, and…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, It’s mid-week, and Harry and I just got the results of Reilly’s x-rays from the radiologist who concurred with the vet that Reilly does not have a fracture and his hips and pelvis are fine, but that he has a floating knee cap and advanced arthritis…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, I hope you enjoyed the holiday weekend and are getting ready to celebrate our Independence Day tomorrow. Harry’s outside cleaning the grill for our family cookout, and I just finished giving Reilly a bath in our kitchen sink. I use baby shampoo. He stares up at…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, Harry and I save change, and we’ve been filling up penny, nickel, dime and quarter rolls to take to the bank to contribute to our grandson John’s college fund that we just opened. He’s only four months old, and we’ve found that starting early…
Dear Priscilla Bennett Friends, It’s Friday and the beginning of another weekend—except now it’s summer—more time for gardening, barbequing and exercising outside in the warm weather. After this past weekend, we’re taking it easy. My geraniums need pruning and watering, and Harry will cook something out on the grill. We’ve…
Happy Friday, Priscilla Bennett Friends, The weather has cooled down, and we’re getting ready for the weekend. I bought a couple of Father’s Day cards for Harry from myself and Reilly—separate cards—Reilly wants his own and so do I. The two of us are having our own Father’s Day celebration…
Beacon Hill Three years earlier—summer 1994 I met Claude Giraud at dinner at my parents’ house on a summer night just before my twenty-second birthday. I had just graduated from Colby College up in Maine and had moved back home. I hoped to find a job in a Boston…
‘He Loved Me Through It All’ By Rose Minutaglio•@RoseMinutaglio Posted on March 23, 2017 at 11:54am EDT Melissa Dohme never thought she’d find love again after being stabbed 32 times by her ex-boyfriend in 2012 near her home in Clearwater, Florida. “I didn’t even want to open my heart up…
As more and more battered women came into the emergency room by ambulance, car or on foot, I saw the magnitude of a problem no one wanted to address. I witnessed and treated abused women from all backgrounds and saw the devastating effects of mental and physical violence it had…
By Ian Mohr February 11, 2017 | 1:07pm Modal Trigger Ray Rice Getty Images Three years after former Ravens star Ray Rice was arrested on domestic assault charges, he’s become a regular speaker on college campuses. Sources told us Rice — who was arrested Feb. 15, 2014, after an attack…
I had been seeing this guy for just over three months. We both drank a lot. One night, he got really mad at me and he called me a lot of names, and then pushed me against the wall. I got really scared but he said he was sorry and…
Paula Patton has accused Robin Thicke of domestic violence and drug abuse, the New York Daily News reported Friday. Patton, in a sworn statement in Los Angeles Superior Court Thursday, alleged that her ex-husband has a “raging, violent temper” and “regularly bedded other women” during their time together. A restraining…
TERESA M. WALKER (AP Sports Writer) The Associated Press•January 25, 2017 View photos FILE – In this April 5, 2016, file photo, Nashville Predators forward Mike Fisher celebrates after scoring a goal against the Colorado Avalanche during the third period of an NHL hockey game in Nashville, Tenn. The Nashville…
Victims of domestic violence could take their pets with them after leaving the relationship under an Indiana lawmaker’s measure that seeks to remove an impediment to reporting abuse. Animal advocates and domestic violence organizations spoke in favor of the bill during the committee hearing Wednesday, the Evansville Courier and Press…
Uploaded: Fri, Jan 20, 2017, 9:07 am County turns away 2,500 requests every year, advocates say by Sue Dremann / Palo Alto Weekly Erin O. stands outside the Los Gatos Library on January 16, 2017. She lost her home, children and finances after her partner froze access and lived…
Houston area, and their mother was charged with snatching them, police announced Tuesday, Jan. 17, 2017. Yates, who had been living in Houston under the name Liana Waldberg, was arrested on Monday, Jan. 16, without incident and faces arraignment Wednesday in Rhode Island on a fugitive charge. (Harris County…
We hear from many people who are in abusive relationships, and even those who have left relationships, but say that they love their abusive partner. They wonder, “Why do I love someone who has hurt me so much?” It can feel strange, confusing and even wrong to love someone…
Her Family Argues the Courts Could’ve Saved Her By Angie McPherson 4 days ago Share Discuss Tara O’Shea-Watson, a mother of five, was terrified of her husband, Jeremiah Monell. Her friends say she often ran away from him, and that she was actively trying to leave him and protect her family. When she…
Jan 16 (The Sports Xchange) – Dallas Cowboys running back Ezekiel Elliott wants to see “closure” on the NFL’s domestic violence inquiry related to the assault accusations made by his ex-girlfriend over the summer. Elliott, the league’s leading rusher this season as a rookie, was accused of a second domestic…
Media & Entertainment J Hugh McIntyre , Contributor I write about the music industry, from tech to charts and more. Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. While the world waits patiently for her return to pop music, Christina Aguilera has been busy becoming a television favorite, as…