Happy Winter!

It's been a while since we posted any "news and events", so here goes:  Just before the first of the year the Patrick O'Brien Foundation received a very special envelope in the mail.  Inside was a 25,000 dollar contribution.  This enabled us to film the winter/Valentine's Day segment of the film, and produce the DVD:  "Everything Will Be Okay".  Both of these projects will be made public soon.  In other fundraising news, long-time friend, supporter and collaborator, Tara McNulty, has been organizing an awesome online art auction.  The auction has raised well over 1,000 dollars and most importantly brought the art and design community into the POBF family. Thanks Tara! Do you have something you can put on ebay that would help raise ALS awareness?  Visit www.therapywithneedles.com for info.  In other news, our cinematographer Ian Dudley and our producer Marcia Mohiuddin were married Feb. 25th.  Congratulations Marcia and Ian!  We expect you to be producing lots of little cinematographers someday soon!   Finally, in between film shoots we have been steadily documenting life in the 'burbs, and posting the results on Flickr and in "Messages from Patrick".  Take a look and leave a message for us while you're there.  That's news for now, and since we never know how to end these updates, we're taking the suggestion from a young friend:
"TTFN! (ta ta for now!)"