Sam’s Super Bowl De-Stress
Anyhoos, as spectators, for us it was mostly all fun, right? But for sports reporters, it’s gotta be one of the craziest days of the year. This recount just in from our friend Sam Crenshaw, sports anchor for 11Alive News in Atlanta:
I really needed to de-stress after Super Bowl Sunday. We normally pre-record our Sunday Sports Extra show, but because it was Super Bowl Sunday, we wanted to do the show live. We scrambled and found two former NFL players who had played for the Packers and Steelers to join us live on the news at 11:35 p.m. We also invited morning radio show host Jimmy Baron and 11Alive entertainment specialist Nina Brown to review the commercials. The stress of getting everybody there on time, and getting all the prep work done by 11:35, left me feeling pretty drained when it was done. So, on Monday I de-stressed at the gym with a big workout and rewarded myself with a massage. If weather had been better I would have hit the tennis courts as well. After eating all the bad stuff at our station’s Super Bowl party, I headed to Sweet Tomatoes yesterday for soup and salad. Much better! 
When Pups Are Left Alone
Things That Bring Me Joy
The Chertoff Mural prior to conservation, © 1961 by Maurice Sendak, all rights reserved.
If I were making a list of The Top 100 Things That Bring Me Joy, the art of Maurice Sendak would definitely be on it. I used to read In the Night Kitchen to Arielle over and over when she was small, and we never stopped marveling at the illustrations. Now, a mural, the only one ever created by Mr. Sendak, done just two years before he published Where the Wild Things Are, has been donated to The Rosenbach Museum & Library in Philadelphia, the major repository for Sendak’s illustrations and manuscripts. There in Philly, this sweet painting of a children’s parade is being lovingly restored, and we’re sure going to find a way to get there to see it. To read about the Chertoff Mural or to learn how to support this important restoration project, visit the Rosenbach’s website or listen to today’s story from “All Things Considered.”
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