Stirrings from the empty nest

I had to change my cellphone service today because Verizon is raising their price by $20 a month. With the new sim card arriving, I quickly ...

Ed Bell with Mike Miller in a WHDH production booth  (Post updated 1/28/25) Word reached Flyover Country today that Ed Bell died yesterday. ...

Somewhere around 2009, we were ready for a new dog following the untimely death of Otter the Wonder Dog (whom my wife thinks was poisoned by...

 I had lunch with a long-time best friend colleague during my working years yesterday. She came out to the hangar for a picnic. She left MPR...

 I don't do much writing anymore. Once writing was a joy, before Minnesota Public Radio basically beat it out of me thanks to writing 17...

  This guy has been my friend longer than anyone else on the planet -- my twin brother, shown here at my oldest son's wedding with his i...

Just a few months before I left the Berkshires and moved to Minnesota, a freak October snowstorm hit The Great Northwest and Minnesotans hav...