Opinion

As my son prepares for his second deployment, he’s also preparing for a trip home for an extended leave prior to his year-long station.

With Memorial Day next Monday, my column has to be to the printer on Wednesday.Charlie’s last JV baseball game was moved from Tuesday to Monday due to the weather predictions.

Congestion pricing comes to Manhattan in June, a system of tolls to reduce daytime traffic on streets that have become sluggish so they’ll start moving again and not turn into parking lots, which is a noble idea, just as no-smoking laws were back in the day: you don’t have a right to be a public nuisance.

In my neighborhood there are a lot of rock outcrops and in those rock outcrops there is a variety of flowering plants and grasses growing at the moment.

Another beautiful week in Minnesota.

Whenever I open an egg carton, I think of the chicken at work in the factory, creating this elliptical work of art onto a conveyor belt, to be stolen away, and then the hormones in the chicken feed kick in and the process of creation repeats itself, sort of like me and limericks: I write a good one and it stimulates the next limerick and pretty soon I have a hundred of them, which I could collect in a book but won’t because very few people appreciate limericks — women do not, because so many cruel limericks have been written about women, and when men read a limerick they think, “I could’ve done better than that,” being the compulsive competitors they are, and meanwhile here I am with this work of art in my hand.Minneapolis is great.

Last week the rain finally cleared enough to till the garden space.