I too was reminded of Betty Ford today. I'm glad you brought her up.

That's how it is here in Missouri too but without a cooperating witness it can be very hard to prosecute. Some people don't realize that and are willing to make a plea to probation/batterer's intervention classes while in other cases our PA's offices are lucky enough to get a neighbor's witness statement or medical…

In my state- probably 30 days jail/house arrest (with credit for time served), restitution for injuries, 2 year SES probation with a 6 month sentence for reoffending, drug/alcohol treatment program and/or anger management. If it was felony counts it would go higher but that's as firm as my courts go with a first…

I do state taxes and we don't generally charge evasion except for businesses for failure to pay sales/withholding tax. They usually get put on probation and sentenced to pay all the money they should have (plus interest) and that's often like $30K. I can't imagine working on the other end of things where I send people…

I went from being a stay at home wife/food blogger to being the one who works the long hours. I've helped my husband by teaching him a dozen meals. His favorites:

Before I started my second from last semester at college, I emailed every professor I planned to register with to let them know I intended to be in their classes and that I would miss 3 classes total to go home and get chemo in the first 6 weeks of class and to let me know if that was okay before I registered. I heard…

My previous job with my employer required me to read police reports. Holy shit were most of them awful. They mostly hand wrote them then but there was one guy who stood out to me as being legible, to the point and really had a grasp of language so you didn't have all those dangling modifiers. The other 99% of reports…

Not at any of the gyms I've gone to.

For me it's all about the hair. I already do some hair twisting back from my face so now I'm layering them and having some fun with it. It's great for naturally curly hair. My hair this week had a day where I tried a Sansa, a Margaery, a Daenerys and a Loras. Then there was the business meeting hair pulled up boring…

Well when I put my 1995 Camry on the market next month I will have quite the challenger in my market. I should probably include in the ad the glitter that still appears in it leftover from junior prom's carpooling and the nostalgia factor of the dent that came when the Good Friday tornado smashed a chair into it if I…

When I was long-term unemployed I basically decided to become a SAHW/dogsitter for my baby. It was great. The winter was good because she kept me warm and in the spring/summer/fall we went to the park, took up running and she reached a 5K distance with me. I cooked fancy meals, kept the house clean, managed all the…

What is it with the old houses that insist on dirtying themselves? I keep blaming the ghosts but it's killing me. My husband often has 80 hour weeks with overnight hours (fortune 500 company relaunching its website and he's the project lead) so he spends even more time recovering. I'm working again after a year of…

If he doesn't defend his clients adequately then it's a reason the case can be tossed out on an appeal and require a new trial with new trauma for the victims. That's not what a sane person would want.

I run with my dog and all the off-leash dogs terrify me. My dog is very scared of people/dogs/objects that launch themselves toward her and she's nearly made me faceplant before (thank you family who shot a rocket at her, I only sprained my wrist on that one). People also need to learn that a 12-foot leash isn't…

My mom had to have a few surgeries after her third c-section and about 15 years later ended up with a full hysterectomy. She didn't have the bladder complication like you did but I know her sister did with just 1 c-section. My mom said she could feel it feeling "wrong" in her for nearly 25 years (after birth #2 which…

I booked my European cruise through a travel agent for the onboard credit deal I knew he had access to. On top of that, he monitored the sales daily and got me a balcony upgrade for like $200 more. I didn't have time to watch for that daily. He didn't do much for me other than that since I'm a micromanager but I was…

I was laughing at this concept up until I saw the age. I feel dead inside now. I'm practically a senior citizen at this point.

I took my dog to dog school where she quickly excelled and basically hated the dogs she thought "lesser" than her. I'm fairly certain she formed a gang. My real downfall was the day we learned "open" and "close it". My house is a 1940s house I'm remodeling and some doors don't work right. My dog figured out how to…

I don't know, Pioneer Girl pre-Rose edits sounds more like the Little House books than The First Four Years. I always thought TFFY sounded too much like an edited journal of Laura's since they each had a similar matter-of-fact tone. Rose definitely contributed some major changes and influences but you can see between…

I was annoyed by the book at first (omg how can she be a real fan if she waited until adulthood to make maple snow candy!?!?) but it was a great read once I got over the setup of the book and got into the experience. I love how she merged her research with her travels and realized that she wanted to get some deeper…