Stirrings from the empty nest

I dropped my oldest son off at the airport this afternoon; he's heading to Las Vegas for week-long Microsoft conference. I'm back ho...

Some browsers won't display this properly but this is an essay I wrote for the day job. Find it here . Judging by the response, I'm...

There are moments when all you can do is smile at your good fortune. And there are days when you feel guilty for jamming so many moments int...

Today was the first test of the "new gig" at work, covering breaking news via blog. In my case, this is "News Cut" at Mi...

I have no reason for posting this other than I didn't want it to go to waste, even though it should.

The captain of the ship carrying millions of gallons of oil that smacked into the Bay Bridge in San Francisco last year was able to pilot hi...

These are two very nice people I met over at a truck stop in Somerset, Wisconsin today. Carma and Danny Glascock of Jermyn, Texas are indepe...

I'm almost 54 now. I'm a fulltime news blogger now and with the economy being what it is, and the news business being what is, who k...

My blogging colleague, DaveG, who runs one of the best blogs I've ever found, writes about another snowstorm that has hit his section of...

One of these days, more pilots will understand that one reason for the decline in general aviation is general aviators.

When I was growing up in Central Massachusetts, I felt about the Berkshires the way most people in Massachusetts feel about the Berkshires -...

What am I doing with four bales of straw? Find out here .

Back when I was far too young to know how good I had it, I worked in Boston with some of the finest people I've ever known. Jess Cain wa...

Blizzards have always been a big part of my radio career, and my first one came 30 years ago this week: The Blizzard of '78 . It star...

You may recall that during last year's American League Championship Series, I began the bittersweet process of painting my youngest son...

Kurt and Ann, our neighbors across the street, are calling it quits and putting their home up for sale. They're the last of the neighbor...

Buddy LeRoux is dead and as befits Stirrings these days, that brings up a story about the time I had a confrontation with him . Hmmm, I see...

This is a picture of an ornament on the Christmas tree at Casa Collins, which is still up as 2007 comes to a close. Back when I was deliveri...

The empty nest was not empty on Christmas. Patrick didn't put his Navy papers in. He says it was because he had to clear up a wart befor...

"It's OK, there'll be other Christmases." I'm not sure why I said that a few months ago when my youngest son, his mot...