Stirrings from the empty nest

It's impossible to watch the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade each year without thinking back to two years I wish I could do over.  Th...

Yesterday, Netflix announced that it will begin to offer a lower-priced package for people who would rather stream movies than get a DVD in...

Today is my oldest son, Sean's, 25th birthday and just as I did on #21 and #23 , I'm about to embarrass him again. Because I have ...

During much of last night's Buddy Guy concert at the State Theater in Minneapolis, I kept thinking how I could get my kids to one of his...

Welcome. You've just been sucked into clicking on a link because of a pretty misleading headline that included a big name. I feel dirt...

It was a Sunday and I wasn't supposed to work. I was the program manager of WSBS in Great Barrington, still in the infant stages of try...

It feels like years since I've made a decent landing in an airplane. I'm in a slump. I can't tell you for sure when it began, an...

The last time I can remember all four of us being together at a ballgame was 1994, the first year Jacobs' Field in Cleveland opened and ...

Having kids is like playing fantasy sports, except it's real. Yesterday, I got big points. Son #1 got a promotion, a new pay grade, an...

By now, thousands of people within the sound of my blog are probably suffering a bad case of empty nest syndrome. The last of the brood has ...

Carolie and I went on a short road trip to Zumbrota, Minnesota on Saturday. It's farm country. The first annual Minnesota Testicle Festi...

Hate to say it but hanging around the MPR booth for a week at State Fair time has replaced Oshkosh as the highlight of my summer.

Last winter, I started the long process of turning the old family room into the new family room. It's a finished basement which, for t...

I drive back East fairly often, although I haven't done it this year. It's about a 23 hour drive over two days, and in addition to r...

At the tail end of a segment on our being a nation of dreamers on MPR's Midmorning yesterday, I did a short interview with host Kerri Mi...

It's not really Oshkosh until we've stopped at Ardy and Ed's drive-in for lunch, which was today's mission. That's Darw...

I've seen some cool things in the years I've been coming to Oshkosh, but I haven't seen anything as outstanding as tonight's...

So far, this has been an "uncomfortable" Oshkosh, not in the sense that there's a lot of mud and all, but that it feels like i...

You not only bring a lawnmower, you use it to mow the grass around your campsite.

Anybody who has ever brought their little kids to Oshkosh recognizes this picture. It's Oshkosh in the campground. Kids doing what kids...