Stirrings from the empty nest

We had a very nice anniversary dinner this evening at McCormick and Kuleto's Restaurant. Our menus said "Happy 25th Anniversary...

Today completed the tourist portion of our trip, on this the 25th anniversary. So we celebrated "the ball and chain" (as Carolie s...

It was hard getting "in" to the vacation today as there was a family crisis back in Minnesota and we were pretty powerless to do ...

There should probably be some sort of law against things being this pretty. I mean, geez, isn't a bit of a crime that, say, North Dakot...

I love to walk. I love to find out where roads and other things lead. This is not always a shared passion, although Carolie gave it a good ...

A few years ago, I visited San Francisco for the first time, while making a presentation or two at the Integrated Media Association conferen...

My kids left the nest early, far earlier than I thought possible, but they left behind plenty of evidence they were once here. Many years a...

Occasionally, here at work, we've kicked around the idea of making the daily "news" rundown on The Current a podcast. I'm ...

When I was a very young man, The Mercury and Gemini space programs occupied much of my attention. I would someday go into space, I was told ...

I took the day off from work yesterday and went golfing with my youngest son. I am not a good golfer at all (my streak of never breaking 100...

The news media, sometimes justifiably so, gets the occasional incoming fire for the way general aviation is portrayed. But sometimes -- more...

It's amazing, really, how little things can suddenly occupy your "brain time." There are big issues in the world to consider. ...

When my kids were small -- very small -- and I'd take them out somewhere, inevitably some person would stop to pinch their cheeks and lo...

On one of the aviation Internet lists I frequent, an acquaintance is upset this week. It seems he was out flying his small plane on Saturda...

I know the many thousands of Stirrings fans are anxious to get away to the south shore of Lake Superior. So here's the place for you. To...

On Saturday, Warren and Karen Starkebaum and Carolie and I headed to the ferry in Bayfield for a trip to Madeline Island, about a 20 minute ...