But Casey's talent for getting into -- and out of -- trouble has earned him the nickname "The Wizard," and he views this latest assortment of predicaments merely as opportunities for yet another brilliant recovery.

Lately, though, Casey's predilection for trouble seems to be outstripping even his own marvelously cosmic equilibrium. His brother Davy's death almost a year before upended Casey's world and left him shaken and uneven, and hurtling from one disaster to the next.