Stirrings from the empty nest

Season's Greetings from Minnesota! I am the last person standing. Carolie has gone to bed and the boys have gone back to their respectiv...

A Christmas present to ourselves and a curiosity have led me to invent a new game -- Six Degrees of Mary Lucia . The 4th Season of Rescue Me...

No, not the miracle you think. I am legend in my family for many attempts at projects that collapsed. I was known as the "Scotch Tape ...

I've put 7 -- almost 8 -- years of work into the RV-7A project and I intend to continue working on it, but I have to prepare for the ob...

I'd love to tell you that one of the first things they teach us in flight school is "don't hit the cows." But it's not...

Today was the annual Christmas shopping trip for Carolie and me. We both take the day off and head to the Mall of America for people-watchin...

It was a bittersweet day in my "career." I live-blogged the end of The Morning Show on Minnesota Public Radio. I dare say there wa...

I've been having a problem with my neck. I think. My neck itself doesn't hurt but the neckbone is connected to the legbone -- OK, it...

I come from a long line of squirrel haters. If a scientific study were to come out tomorrow that global warming is making squirrels extinct,...

Carolie and I don't dine out a great deal but I'd still have to say the Bayport Cookery, along the St. Croix River just south of Sti...

Carolie's Dad, Don Thurston, was inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame. He's in bigger "halls" -- the ...

My 90-day currency was going to expire in the next few weeks, it was a nice day out, and I wanted to get away from the ridiculous campaign n...

At 5:38 p.m. on October 18, 1985, Sean Michael Collins was born. The next day, a 5.3 earthquake struck Armonk, New York in Westchester Count...

As part of the day job, I'm live-blogging the Palin-Biden debate. Hope you can join me with a few comments.

After a couple of days of work, the old house is completely resided. Down goes the yellow aluminum, up goes the "aspen" vinyl (I f...

This is the yellow aluminum-sided house I've lived in since 1993. Within a few days it will be a not-yellow, vinyl sided house instead. ...

I tend to consider myself a person in the middle and, like most elections, the election of 2008 is frustrating to those of us in the middle....

Just to prove that I am, indeed, at the Democratic National Convention in Denver, I submit this photo. My stuff appears on News Cut . There...

While I'm building my RV airplane, I still need to keep current while I fly. Most of my flying is touch and goes and some local flying. ...

I threw out the "first pitch" at tonight's St. Paul Saints - Fort Worth Cats Northern League game (will somebody please tell m...