Sesame Street | Sesame Street
Mar.06.2013
I was excited at the prospect of writing about my favorite children's adventure story when Huntington posted his challenge a little earlier today.
There were so many excellent adventure stories I loved as a kid. And I'd run across so many new ones as my own kids have grown up and torn through books...
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Oct.10.2012
Recently I spent a day on Portobello Market in London. Two police officers walked past; one was a tall bobby, the other a minute woman police constable. The WPC especially caught the attention: she was a mere five foot but kitted out in the full uniform. I could almost have put her into a box and...
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Sep.14.2011
So I’m going to admit something: I’m not a big fan of blood. Therefore, vampires aren’t on my top ten list. When Meranda, her then boyfriend and I saw Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, there was so much blood that when the movie was over she looked at me and said: “Are you okay? You are so white.” It...
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Nov.04.2009
Sesame Street is forty years old today. When the program first launched, it was touted as a show to help kids learn and to show them that learning is fun. I never understood why they needed talking toys to instill a love of learning. I thought then, and I still think that learning itself is fun....
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Aug.08.2009
Here's another reason we love working at Red Room: Our jobs require reading the superb writing our community shares with us. Last Friday, for instance, one of the items on our collective to-do list here at Red Room HQ was "Read Red Room blog-topic-of-the-week entries." What a treat!
We...
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Sep.24.2008
One of the great things about having a child is getting to relive those moments of your childhood you treasured the most...trips to the playground, toys (though I suspect my daughter may not be quite as interested in Transformers as I was...), holidays, and--of course--Sesame Street. Through the...
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