I'm happy to report that my trip to Manhattan to appear on "The Martha Stewart Show" with my chicken Tookie went off without incident. I worried every step of the way. I worried whether Tookie would like the car ride, and whether she'd be happy being in the television studio, and whether she'd act out in some wild chicken-y way on camera; I even worried whether, when she was back home with her flock, the other chickens would sense some fundamental change in her (exposure to the bright lights ...