It’s snowing in Seattle—barely, just a few flurries that aren’t sticking. But I still hope to collect fifty cents for each time someone says “Seattle people can’t drive in the snow” or “I thought it was supposed to spring already.”

Should be enough to pay my happy-hour tab. I encourage you to do the same!

Brend an Kiley has worked as a child actor in New Orleans, as a member of the junior press corps at the 1988 Republican National Convention, and, for one happy April, as a bootlegger’s assistant in Nicaragua....