Life makes us all do emotional somersaults at times and right now I’m feeling happy, and sad, and really, really mad. Let me explain. A few days ago, we went to an outdoor wedding in the rolling hills near Montevallo. It was a wedding we thought for years wouldn’t happen, but it did. That made me happy.

Manufactured events highlighting special days, weeks or months to commemorate everything from rare maladies to unsung professions usually give me the hives. Despite that, I confess I’m a sucker for Sunshine Week, the seven days set aside by the American Society of News Editors to focus on open government and “your right to know,” as sunshineweek.org puts it.