Opinion

Green is busting out all over.

The weather - it still plagues us.

I went out West to Idaho and Washington to do my show in Boise (soft s) and Spokane, and was surprised by how vibrant, bustling, handsome both cities are, and walked out onstage and sang Van Morrison’s “These are the days of the endless summer, these are the days, the time is now” and they seemed to like it okay, so I hummed a note and they sang “America the Beautiful” with me and then we did “The Battle Hymn of the Republic” for the Republicans in the crowd and they sang it full-out, four parts, and then, for contrast, “John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt” and we were on our way.It’s an age of dread, the news perpetually discouraging, TV and media merchandising ugliness, and either you join the Greek chorus of gloom or you go with the American choir of cheerful resolve, and I choose cheerfulness.

What a beautiful Sunday morning.

It’s been a few years since I tried my hand at gardening, so when a friend offered a shared space on her land for a co-garden this summer, I was very excited to get busy on it.

It’s been another busy week.

School choice — the right of parents to get state subsidy of the private education of their kids — was not around back in my time, my dears.