The Terrible Catsafterme

At least that’s the way I always looked at it. Which makes it a no-brainer to do things like fly directly to Los Angeles from Miami, immediately following the cruise vacation that my Mom, Bob, and I had just taken. After going through customs at the port on Friday, February 11, 2011, I caught the shuttle bus to the Miami airport. I had only been mildly concerned about the early time of my flight, but I arrived with a full half-hour to spare before we even boarded the plane. I picked up the Miami magnet that I had missed when we had last been in Miami and caught my flight at 11:30am. Read the rest of this entry »

Outside of her role as Jennifer Marlowe on WKRP in Cincinnati, Loni Anderson didn’t do all that much that was noteworthy in the entertainment realm. She has parts in films like The Lonely Guy, A Night at the Roxbury, and the female lead in critical bomb Stroker Ace, alongside her future husband Burt Reynolds. But that role, along with a classic pin-up pose from the 1970’s, ensured that she would remain an icon for more than 30 years – and I was pretty excited to get the chance to meet her at the Hollywood Show in Burbank, California, on Saturday, February 12, 2011. Read the rest of this entry »

It was last February when my Mom and I had both decided that we were sick of Ohio winters and she suggested that we take a cruise in a nice, warm location to help alleviate the painful winter. Subsequently she took an Alaskan cruise in September with relatively short notice and had almost nixed the idea of the winter getaway. But I hadn’t forgotten. As the time got closer and the weather kicked out all of the Ohio warmness that we had enjoyed over the Summer, I began to ask if she had begun making our plans yet. Although both Denise and Ashleigh were invited to come along, they both declined, and she began making the preparations for three. Read the rest of this entry »

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I was hoping for a white Christmas for 1986, mostly because I had a new sled. But hoping for and getting wasn’t always the same – as this Christmas proved. There was sickness a-brewing in my house. Denise had interrupted my movie-watching on the evening of Saturday, December 20, to let me know that she had thrown up all over her room. She spent the rest of the weekend recovering, but not before leaving the germs of a flu bug behind. By Tuesday, Dad was feeling ill and was having productive sessions over the toilet. Read the rest of this entry »