The Terrible Catsafterme

I’m going to have to thank my friend George Willeman for this one. Or give credit. Or blame. However you see it. On Sunday evening, November 21st, I noticed that George had posted a video link on his Facebook page. This link took me to a site called Xtranormal, and it was an infantile attempt at animated humor – and I mean that in the nicest way possible. In fact, I liked it so much, I started to poke around and see how it easy it was that even I too could create these bursts of animated childishness. Read the rest of this entry »

When my Mom was a kid, her extended family was not quite as close as our Murphy clan is today, but they were pretty tight-knit. My great grandmother Henrietta Murlin (nee Dwyer) lived in my Mom’s household for the last years of her life, so her children and grandchildren (that is, my Mom’s aunts and uncles and cousins) were paying frequent visits to their house. So although they didn’t do the mass family gatherings that my generations of cousins have been used to, they got to see each other quite a bit. Read the rest of this entry »

There was absolutely no good reason why it took so long to get through the line to see Olivia d’Abo. There seemed to be only a few people in front of me, yet it took nearly 20 minutes of standing there before we moved forward. Those 20 minutes were at least spent staring at Olivia and admiring her beauty. And I guess, it must have been her friendliness that kept her chatting with fans who clearly wanted to gawk as long as they could when she appeared at the Chiller Theatre Show in Parsippany, New Jersey, on Saturday, October 30, 2010. Read the rest of this entry »