Funny box copy for the Swedish Chef’s cereal? That was me. “Dial-a-Muppet” sketches? Me. A statement to the press from Miss Piggy? Me. One of the things I certainly wasn’t focused on as a 27-year-old ...

He works in mysterious ways.

Sure, kids could relate to the Cookie Monster and maybe even Grover, but Henson Associates, Inc., was beginning to wonder if maybe some of the Muppet characters weren’t just a little bit too grown up.

On November 6, 1987, after a devastating stock market crash, the Muppets appeared on a special “Town Hall” edition of ABC’s “Nightline” in segments designed to explain the financial system. I wrote ...

In 1987 I had my first professional job as a writer. I was a computer programmer when I dropped out of college and moved to New York, but a series of the kind of decisions you make in your twenties ...