For those asking for updates on Shailey Tripp.

When I first heard that Shailey was in trouble I reached out to her via email to see how she was doing.

I just received this response yesterday:

This is a statement from me personally since there has been an overwhelming questions and inquiries as to my well being and what happened to me last week. What I experienced no human should ever have to go through. I am now safe, my kids are safe, the police are doing their job, and out of respect to them and to me please refrain from gossip. At this time I am healing. I eventually will be okay. There has been a tremendous outpour of love and concern and that has touched me profoundly. I am not going to lie, I am in serious trouble financially. This has affected more than just me and this situation has jeopardized where I live and how I make a living. Because of where I Iive there is not victim assistance or help in the ways that I need. If anyone does want to help or make a donation please do so to my paypal account shaytripp@hotmail.com.

I do ask if you pray, to pray for me and my family. At some point in the near future, I will be blogging again and resume my radio show. I am not ready to talk about last week and I can't promise you that I ever will. I want the police to be able to do their job, and I want answers and I want justice. I am not reading blog comments, blogs, or even the news. Thank you all for your support and concern and well wishes because it really means the world to me. Please try to respect my privacy in this matter. Again thank you. 

Sincerely, 

Shailey

Beyond this I really do not know anything more.

Shailey did come to visit me in Anchorage awhile back, and we had a good talk, but I have only had intermittent contact with her since.

Like all of you I hope that she is safe, and that recovers, and that her upcoming movie is a huge success.

P.S. Just a final point, from what I have heard this latest situation is NOT connected to the Palins so let's not go crazy and dream up a bunch of conspiracy theories for no reason.

Okay?

P.P.S. I will also monitor this thread fairly carefully so if you are here to attack Shailey or indulge in those previously mentioned conspiracy theories know now that only you and I will ever see those comments.

From my heart to yours, thank you.

I felt that my first post of the say should be hearty THANK YOU for all of you who donated money to my Pay Pal account yesterday.

As you know it was not my idea that Tuesday be a day to make donations to this blog, nor could I imagine ever asking.  But that does not mean it was not greatly appreciated.

Your generosity, and kind messages attached to the payments, were VERY kind, and it made me feel more than a little humble.

I would like you to know that I will not be spending the extra cash on loose women and fast cars. I will instead be spending the money on loose cars and fast women.

Obviously I am joking, mostly because my daughter can smell money for a thousand miles away and will undoubtedly come up with some emergency that can only be solved by emptying my bank account.

I know what you are thinking, "Can't you say no?'

Nope I cannot.

It turns out I love that little pain in the ass, who shoots me her mother's look when I am correcting her, and can NEVER SEEM TO GET HER DIRTY DISHES INTO THE DISHWASHER, too much to ever deny her anything.

Perhaps you would like to know that your generosity, and the money earned from Google ads, in the past have helped to:

• Purchase her a new transmission when her old one fell out of her motor-home on the way up here from Georgia.
• Purchase a ratty old couch that she could plop in the middle of my living room.
• Buy a truck for $500 that I thought would only last the summer, but which she is still driving a year later.
• Buy her a new Apple computer when her old one went belly up.
• Pay for her wisdom teeth to be pulled when she was in too much pain to even get out of bed.
• Purchase a Queen size bed because "I'm a grown woman Dad, I can't sleep in a twin bed anymore!"
• Buy her a new I-Pad for "her work."
• And pay for her gas when she was in between movie and TV gigs.

And believe me, even though I might complain all the time occasionally, I could not have thought of a better way to have spent any of that money. (Though I might have at least enjoyed SHOPPING for fast women.)

Anyhow I greatly appreciate that your generosity has allowed me to be the hero in my daughter's life when she desperately needed one. I don't think I could have managed it on just my salary.

Merry Christmas Angel!

So thank you again, and I hope I continue to provide entertainment, humor, and important factual information for many years to some.

Namaste my friends.