Stirrings from the empty nest

A week or so ago, Minnesota Public Radio hired a fine photographer to snap some "publicity" photos of people who are on the air. S...

I've always been interested in the space program. When I was a kid, my folks gave me a Panasonic reel-to-reel recorder and I'd stay ...

How many churches do Islamists have to firebomb in order to make their point that the Pope was wrong to have quoted 14th century Byzantine ...

Today was my wife's birthday. She needs a break; bad things tend to happen on her birthday. In 1986, my grandmother died on her birthda...

I come from a long line of worriers. Or maybe it's a short line. And maybe it's not "worrying," per se. Maybe it's jus...

Click for a larger image. Patrick and I played what is probably our last golf game of the summer. And perhaps one of the reasons why I'm...

One of Carolie and my favorite pasttimes is taking pictures of people who might not be in their most -- shall we say -- positive light. One ...

Every now and again, I get slapped in the face by the confirmation that I'm changing; swept into a different dimension by technology. No...

I have returned to Minnesota after a two-day drive back from Fitchburg, Massachusetts with a stop overnight in Napoleon, Ohio. My mother tol...

Since he died in February 2004, nobody has done much in "the little room," the workshop of my father in the barn just down the str...

The great Eastern vacation has moved to the homestead in Fitchburg, Massachusetts. My mother, bless her heart, was just telling me about the...

I suppose it's time to get back to the business of this column, musings on life from the empty nest. My wife and I arrived at Newark...

You know how I said I had a feeling I'd break 100 golfing during this trip. Well, I haven't, at least so far. But I came close. Toda...

I may never take the interstate highway system again. I arrived in the Berkshires last night after a two-day drive from Minnesota, learning ...

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.