Stirrings from the empty nest

I'm heading out in the morning for the road trip back East. I'm planning on taking back roads through most of the trip and have sele...

OK, just one more post regarding Oshkosh. Aero News Network today published a story about the BBQ I hosted there.

I didn't get a chance to take any pictures from the big Oshkosh barbecue I hosted during AirVenture. But a few folks did and they're...

The temperatures pushed well into the 90s today, but I headed out to the flight line area anyway, an area of red-hot blacktop. Good thing, t...

Thursday July 27, 2006 Over the years at Oshkosh, there've been several times when my jaw has dropped and my breath has been taken away....

Another day at Oshkosh. I lost my digital camera today. Rats.

Not much new in the farmfields of Oshkosh. The actual show opened this morning and I went down for a little while and took in one forum on a...

I signed up for a T-Mobile hotspot account so I can have network access if I don't mind sitting in a baking parking lot for a few minute...

The audio from the Policy and a Pint session last Thursday has now been posted on the MPR site . Click the link on that page that says ...

Summer at my house hits its peak when it's time to head to Oshkosh for the Experimental Aircraft Association annual AirVenture . For one...

Well, Patrick's graduation party went pretty well, all things considered. Not a lot of people, but a healthy dose and with the weather i...

We're having a graduation party for our youngest son tomorrow. In planning for it, we crossed our fingers and hoped it wouldn't rain...

Michael Wells, the brains behind much of the MPR Web site sent along some pictures from last night's Policy and a Pint session . He say...

Well, I give them all credit for coming out at 6:30 on a Thursday evening to listen to someone like me talk about campaign finances. But the...

Tonight I'm doing Policy and A Pint at the Varsity Theater. The subject is money and campaigns. I think my pals at the Current couldn...

I need more sawhorses around the house. So I got up early today, grabbed the keys and headed to Home Depot to buy some 2x4s and some of thos...

When I was a kid, we spent a lot of summers at our trailer on Plum Island in Newburyport, Massachusetts. Every once in awhile, we'd go s...

So how was your summer? It's the 4th of July, a date which will always mark the end of summer somewhere in my mind's consciousness. ...

Confession, they say, is good for the soul. If so, I'm about to be very, very good to my soul, because as a onetime news editor once kno...

The other night -- I think it was Thursday -- I arrived home to this. Don't be fooled by the relaxed appearance of the dog. He's act...