I leave for Asia tomorrow. While packing up my mobile office, I found this un-posted blog hiding on my cluttered desktop. I wrote it a few days after Christmas. In M. Night Shyamalan’s 2004 movie, The Village, the elders taught their children to fear “those we don’t...
Usually when you lay on your back, both feet are pointing straight up. As William laid on the gym floor groaning in pain, his left foot was pointing up and his right foot was laying on its side pointing right. His doc said this is usually a career-ender, and that...
James Brown. Gerald Ford. Saddam Hussein. What do they have in common with my mother? The same thing we all have in common with each other. Mortality. They all died in 2006. Here are my thoughts about 10 people who passed from time to eternity in 2006. Some stepped...
I posted something like this last year, but bumped a movie to make room for Elf in this year’s list. 1. It’s a Wonderful Life – We usually save this one ’til New Year’s Eve.2. Miracle on 34th Street – The 1947 black and white edition.3. Christmas in Connecticut –...
Last year I presented the Murrell all-time favorite Christmas movie list. (I’ll re-post it tomorrow for those who missed it last year.) This year I am giving you our top TV specials. Here it goes. 1. Newheart – Larry, his brother Darryl and his other brother Darryl...
We arrived in Manila late Thursday night, September 7, after several months in the States. The next day, Friday, September 8, I drove to Market-Market Mall to meet Joey B for lunch at Teriyaki Boy (literally “Young Fat Boy” according to Scott D). As I pulled my...
