Somewhere in my house, buried deep in a bin, is a picture I thought of immediately when I read that Caroll Spinney was hanging up his Big Bird beak and retiring from Sesame Street. The picture I pretty much tore the house apart looking for was of my then three-year old son Vinnie dressed as [...]
Mary and Violet Crawley let me tag along with them as we toured the Downton Abbey exhibit Monday, but they made me behave myself. "No pictures!" they stage-whispered theatrically and repeatedly as we made our way through the stunningly beautiful Paine Art Museum in Oshkosh. "They don't mean NO pictures," I tried to explain, as [...]