Stirrings from the empty nest

My family and friends from out of town can stop asking me if we have a senator yet. Here was my on-air analysis of the end of the Minnesota ...

The talented people at work have designed a new Web site , upon which my daily offerings appear. As with any new endeavor, there's a...

This is the most interesting thing in the garden these days. I bought the Spiderwort plant and put it in a container on the deck. The flower...

One great thing about working in St. Paul, is the Mississippi River is just a short walk away from the downtown headquarters of Minnesota Pu...

I have always said -- only to myself -- that the more I'm enjoying work, the worse my gardens are. This year, my gardening is going very...

The Cleveland Indians have a habit of coming to Minnesota when it's Patrick's birthday. Yesterday was that day and Patrick and Sean ...

It's birthday #55. I headed outside shortly after sun-up to thin out the radishes and the next thing I know, I was hand trimming (with s...

Yet another video of me doing something I used to do when I was younger. I'm sensing a theme here.

I'm back in Minnesota but wanted to share a tip from my gardening mother. She has dandelions daffodils and narcissus sprouting up in r...

Where I grew up, my grandmother -- and then my mother -- owned several acres of field abutting a forest owned by, well, we don't really ...

Near 80 degrees in April. A good time to sit outside in New England without fear of a mosquito attack. Here's my sister, Cheryl; my b...

My sister, Cheryl, just showed me this picture she took up in Maine:

For people who don't know New England milltowns of the 1900s, they have -- or had -- three faces. The bottom rung was the first- or seco...

After 1,390.5 miles of driving over two days, I arrived in the ancestral homeland -- Massachusetts -- on Tuesday night. And how do I know I ...

I'm driving back to Massachusetts from Minnesota starting tomorrow but my currency for renting at Thunderbird Aviation runs out at the e...

I'm as cynical as they come, and this is a good test to determine if you are, too.

Where's Bob? He's in Moorhead, Minnesota, eye-to-eye with the Red River. Meet my new friends .

Son, Patrick, sent this picture along today. Apparently it was picture day. This isn't the "official" picture, but I'm thi...

There aren't a lot of things I'd do differently as a child; only one, really. I'd have paid more attention to the piano. I am n...

I was working out at the hangar today when my hangar neighbor, Rey Hurdt, asked me if I wanted to go flying with him to try to warm up the o...