Dears, I had the most amazing dream this weekend: I traveled on a series of planes that were on time and encountered no turbulence, to arrive in a place where the people treated me with love, devotion and pie. Indeed, they seemed to know everything about me. They felt like relatives, but even better. Bercaws…

Dears, Tomorrow morning, and I mean the very wee hours of the morning, I’m flying to Frankfort, Kentucky to see a man about a brain. Not just any brain, as you well know. My father’s brain — and the Brain in a Jar book I wrote about growing up with my dad’s great mind and…