Do you like reading about parenting?

Do you like reading about parenting and the juggle working moms and working dads have to make between their home lives and their careers? Well, you're in luck! I'm one of the bloggers for the Orlando Sentinel's Moms at Work blog. And no, it's not just for moms who work outside the home. Stay-at-home moms, stay-at-home dads and working dads will find plenty of information (and the occasional smile moment) that will apply to their lives, too. You can find the blog at OrlandoSentinel.com/momsatwork.

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I'm Anika Myers Palm. And yes, I have a Tumblr.

Want an ambitious daughter? She needs a daddy who does housework

Dads, want to make sure your daughter is ambitious? Then make sure you do a good job at sharing housework. Read more information about a study indicating that egalitarian dads have more ambitious daughters at the Orlando Sentinel's Moms at Work blog.

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Getting arrested for charity

I'm going to be arrested. For charity! Many charities raise money by inviting participants to raise money set periods of time particularly if the person has many contacts. So...I’ll be getting arrested for charity this year. I don’t know when but it will be for a good cause: I’m doing this to raise money for my alma maters, Georgetown University and Columbia University. You can learn more about this little project of mine via my various social media sites: http://twitter.com/ampalm https://plus.google.com/u/0/115907559814931389952/posts http://www.linkedin.com/pub/anika-palm/5/207/837 https://vimeo.com/user465064

Arresting Agencies and Crime Reporter Boundaries

I'm Anika Myers Palm with the Orlando Sentinel. One of the toughest things for a new reporter who is just starting out covering crime when you're trying to cover an arrest for the first time is figuring out exactly what your boundaries are. Maybe you'll ask for a police report from the arresting agency, the law enforcement agency and they will redact certain information and sometimes that information was exactly what you needed in order to be able to contact someone else involved in the case and you'll have to find a way around it. Other times the arresting agency isn't forthcoming at all whether it's with the documents related to the case or with letting you to speak with anybody affiliated with the case, anybody who's working on it and that can be difficult as well and those are just things that you're just going to have to work through. Some cases are not, some cases are just aren't going to be easy for you no matter what the arresting agency is or what the arrestee has done and so you'll work your way through that it's just one of those things that will get better for you as get more experience.

Covering An Arrest Means Tracking Down Arrestees

I'm Anika Myers Palm and I'm with the Orlando Sentinel. When you have an arrest happen and you need to cover that arrest or you find out that there's an arrest that's going to happen. Usually what will happen is that you'll either hear about it on the scanners or the law enforcement agency that's handling the arrest will give you a call or an e-mail and let you know hey, something might be happening soon. Sometimes you will get that notice and you'll be able to be there when that arrest happens. Other times you won't be able to be there and you will get to know because the law enforcement agency will call you and say why don't you come down to the jail and we will let the arrestee do a perp walk. So you'll get to be there maybe you can take photos and you might even get to shout a question or two and sometimes they'll answer, not always, but sometimes they will. After that you can submit a request to the prison or the jail and ask whether the arrestee will talk to media. Sometimes, depending on the crime the prison or jail may not let them. Sometimes the person him or herself will say I don't want to talk to media. So you'll figure that out as it happens. Then you're, you'll be dealing with the court system so the arrestee will have to be arraigned and you'll deal with a trial after that if it comes to that if there are no plea deals made.