Got to spend some time with my niece Megan Malanowski, the very cool 10 year-old daughter of my brother Matt. She says she harbors thoughts of becoming a writer. Sounds like she might be a good one–she’s smart, and funny, and has some written some stories that sound very creative. One lesson she has to learn is that no writer, let alone any of the really great ones, ever leaves his or her dirty dishes laying around, but perhaps she will eventually master that. Meanwhile, she compared me to the Cheshire Cat. I’ll take that as a compliment.