My greatest, happiest moments these days are spending quality time with my niece and nephews. From sun up to sundown, each day blazes past in a lightning flash flurry, as we lose track of all time and space and exhaust ourselves with games, and crafts, and bike ride caravans, and spontaneous homemade stories… today we made monster cutout stand-ups for our own carnival shooting gallery… to kill and blow away with Nerf rifles and save Earth and the universe… Later, I got to re-arrange and re-imagine Barbie’s home life and party-house cocktail hour with my niece…