My Current Interest

               In an interview I was reading, an actor brought up the subject of positivity.   The article did not go into detail about the actor’s thoughts in regards to positivity, it simply mentioned it was one of the topics of conversation, but I still immediately thought of Michael J. Fox’s book Always Looking Up: The Adventures of an Incurable Optimist .   It was a book I had read before and it always seems to come to mind when someone brings up positivity and optimism.   The reason this happens is not only is it a good book, but because Mr. Fox seems to take a different stance on positivity and optimism.   My perception of the traditional thinking of positivity and optimism is that in order to be considered either a positive person or an optimist one must be that way all the time.   Dark thoughts can never enter your mind.   Ever.   If they do, nothing good will ever come your way.   This, of course, is an extreme generalization, but that is what I feel is being said when the

               Sometimes what you need is a really good laugh.   For awhile now, the best films to help me with this have been the animated ones.   I am finding that in animated films there are a lot more clever lines and not as much slapstick.   Since that is how I like my comedies, animated films are the way for me to go.                             Hotel Transylvania 2 is the sequel to Hotel Transylvania , an animated film from a few years ago.   This time around, Count Dracula’s (Adam Sandler) daughter, Mavis (Selena Gomez) and her human boyfriend, Johnny (Andy Samberg) have gotten married.   Soon after their honeymoon, Mavis discovers she is pregnant.   Mavis understands that with having a human father, her and Johnny’s child may turn out to be human and not a vampire.   Dracula does not believe this is possible.   Of course his grandchild will be a vampire.   When the child, a son, Dennis (Asher Blinkoff), is born, Dracula does whatever he can to bring out the vampire sid

Photo of DVD cover take by Kate Dorsey           I have now officially watched every Murder, She Wrote episode ever made.   The only one I have doubts about is the crossover episode with Magnum, P.I. , but I’m pretty sure I watched that one too.   With so many episodes from twelve seasons, it’s hard to remember what I have all seen until I start to watch again.   Then often it takes me only a few minutes and I remember the entire episode.   Since I watched much of the show during the original run and in reruns, that happened a lot as I watched all twelve seasons on DVD.   That didn’t, however, happen when I watched the Murder, She Wrote: 4 Movie Collection .   The movies were made after the original series ended.   I know I looked forward to them when they were on TV at the time, but only once in awhile did I recognize anything familiar.   So either I did not end up watching them when they first aired, or I only saw them that once and have a hard time remembering what happened.   Ei