Readers of this blog clearly want to hear more about Manzi, a.k.a. Melvin, my landlord’s 7-year-old son. He is always up to something. A while back when I was grading tests in the courtyard at the end of the day, he spied my red Sharpie and he thought he should do some drawing with it. Manzi commandeered that Sharpie, ending my grading, and also took my black Sharpie and a neon yellow highlighter. He then took my chair and added another to serve as his desk. He drew a picture with a rainbow, a house, a couple of fish, a basket and some other things. When the light faded, he came into my house to continue his artwork. He was joined by Emmanuel, the teenager who cleans my house, who ripped off a flap of the box my toaster came in for his canvas. Then the electricity went out in the neighborhood, but that didn’t stop either of them. They turned on my bicycle light and continued drawing their pictures.