May 23, 2016 | A Day In My Life
I once heard someone say “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother.” In my case, the saying is more like “If it’s not one thing, it’s your mother, and your father, and that brother, and that brother and that brother and still that brother.” My name is Belfast McGrath –...
May 22, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Howdy from Austin, Texas, home of rolling hills covered in bluebonnets, great music, Tex-Mex and weird characters. I’m one of those characters, an attorney living a modern life with high rises and technology, but with one foot firmly planted on South Congress with the...
May 21, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Time slows to a crawl when you’re nearly nine months pregnant. Every day is a struggle, because you feel like a klutz. A fat klutz at that. Your joints loosen up, your balance shifts, and your feet become a distant memory. With the first baby, you’re excited and...
May 20, 2016 | A Day In My Life
In my thirty-three year soap career, I acted in dozens of scenes that involved the soap’s entire cast. A wedding, costume ball, or New Year’s Eve party were popular settings for the multi-episode shoots that would resolve one storyline and launch a new one. Romances...
May 19, 2016 | A Day In My Life
It’s June in Los Angeles, 1907, and I’m not wearing my corset. The silk of my Madeline Vionet dress slips across my bosoms and I feel wonderful. Mrs. Cooper notices my jiggling and sends me upstairs. It is, I tell her, too hot for corsets and cantankerous chaperones...
May 18, 2016 | A Day In My Life
Stable manager, eh? And not any old stable manager but the stable manager to the Dowager Countess, Lady Edith Honeychurch at Honeychuch Hall. Blimey! Not every man gets a second chance in life especially after spending a number of years off and on at various...
