Alfred E. Neuman is the jug-eared mascot on the cover of Mad, my favorite magazine growing up (and people accuse me of being an intellectual, so hah!).
Why does this photograph fill me with so much joy? Why does the sight of my younger brother holding his newborn daughter Julie make me want to live to be a hundred?
On Christmas Eve, Julie kicked and screamed her way through a C-section, arriving in Indianapolis, a tiny spot on the western hemisphere of Planet Earth.
