Basically, my name is not PENNY THE TROUBLEMAKER. It’s Penelope Jones. The "Troublemaker" is my dad's JOKE. But I don’t see what’s funny about it. Plus, it’s not even true that I’m a troublemaker.

It’s just that sometimes my BRILLIANT IDEAS don’t have a brilliant outcome in practice. For example, I didn’t mean for my cousin to end up bald and covered in...