In January 2015 I moved to a remote area of Arkansas, referred to as Back of Beyond.

My intention was to live a peaceful life on my property. It was named PTSD for Peace, Tranquility, Serenity, Divinity.

Prior to that, I wrote about corruption in the courts, mostly the family law courts in California.

There was a list of the usual suspects involved in most of the shocking, horrific cases. Alan Friedenthal, the rotund buffoon who (according to reliable sources) had a proclivity for abusing young boys. Dr. Joseph Keenan, a psychiatrist appointed to evaluate other people’s parenting, though he also was known to troll for what looked like under aged males to have “bare back sex” with at “snow parties”. (Those are code words for unprotected homosexual sex at cocaine fests.) Appointed minor’s counsel Bill Spiller, Jr. He is still at it, according to some of the women who claim to have been threatened with losing their children if they did not put up with his inappropriate advances and gun slinging.

I was also dealing with the fallout of my own acrimonious divorce and had a romantic and business partner who was a lifelong alcoholic. He said he was drinking beer out of his baby bottle. He was also a convicted felon. He was living in a halfway house when we met, he was sober, and even my bitchy stuck up sister Mary Sherman told him, “You are the first of Laura’s boyfriends we approve of.” The day his probation ended, he was right back to his drinking, drugging, and other risky behaviors.

In 2012, the California Commission on Judicial Performance issued a Decision and Order Imposing Public Admonishment against Alan Friedenthal for his conduct on my case and four others.

Instead of correcting the horrible decisions he made, his fellow judicial officers, including his wife Stef Padilla, meted out more punishment to me and anyone else involved in exposing the bad behavior.

After checking in to a behavioral health facility twice for anxiety and depression, I chose to live a quiet life of equanimity. I “hid” my blog. Many of my posts were deleted by computer thieves, anyhow.

Unfortunately, I had a few conflicts that needed court intervention. Instead of using wisdom and impartiality to resolve the conflicts, the judges involved appeared to have a bias against me, refused to let me have a jury decide the issues and committed honest services fraud against me, such as conspiring to produce an inaccurate record. Since my adversaries and the court insisted that I dig up the painful experiences of my past, I am planning to write a series of books.

The first is called “Temporary Insanity”. It is an anthology of short stories about each of my court cases. Then I will expand on each in a separate book that has an appendix chock full of filed court documents from each case.

For those of you who just can’t wait, here is your Doc of the Day.