I came out of the Metro station and went to get a bike at the Bikeshare dock to ride home. Of course — why even mention it? — while coming up the escalator, I checked on my phone app to see how many slots were open at the station at my apartment building. Only three left. Uh-oh.

It was about month ago when the first letter arrived. I say “letter,” but in fact it was just a folded rectangle of graph paper bearing a string of numbers.

The whole idea of the diner — not just Denny’s in particular — is what I hate.

Then, in a Matalin/Carville, Montague/Capulet sort of twist, I married a diner lover. Hence, the Denny’s birthday.

“Obama: Out of the Closet on Gay Marriage!” the Traditional Values Coalition shouted in a news release slamming the president’s announcement that he supports same-sex couples being allowed to marry.

Cereal and syrup for breakfast? In bed? Bring it on!

Mothers truly adore everything those sticky hands make for us on Mother’s Day.

President Obama’s affirmative declaration of support for marriage equality was a spectacular ending to the most watched “evolution” in political history. But it was also a comfort, coming the day after North Carolina voters used a ballot referendum to amend the state constitution to ban not only same-sex marriage but also civil unions and domestic partnerships. The Tar Heel State, which already had a law banning gay marriage, is now the 30th state to adopt a constitutional amendment. But one state has the potential to break this disheartening trend: Maryland.

Stanley, who is moving to a bigger job in Calgary after four years as Montgomery County’s planning director, derided opponents of his ambitious vision for the future as “rich white women” who were “spreading fear.”

There’s no need to bother with street dealers or big drug traffickers.

None of us were wearing gowns or tuxes, or announced by cameras and causes, like the hundreds of glitzy people who flocked to the White House Correspondents’ Association Dinner.

As middle-class America hand-wrings over recent statistics that show nearly a third of the nation’s 25- to 34-year-olds have returned home to live with their parents — the boomerang generation — it’s easy to forget the sub-crisis within.

Parents worry about their teens being distracted by smartphones and other mobile devices but admit to using these devices themselves. How about buying a car with a manual transmission? Using a stick shift deters texting, phone use, smoking, eating, applying makeup — all sorts of distractions. The driver has to pay attention to the car and approach the task of driving seriously.

Readers should know that the horseshoe crab’s future remains uncertain, as does that of the red knot and other shorebird species dependent upon excess crab eggs for food.