Stirrings from the empty nest

My Dad didn't talk too much about his past, a feature that may well have something to do with the fact I don't know that I ever a...

When my kids were very young, they were subjected , over their strong objection, to the wanderlust of their father, who likes to find out w...

As my mother in law's Alzheimer's progressed in the last few years, I never quite resolved a nagging question as the neurons con...

I drive Lyft and I'm not exactly sure why. Sure, I need about $400 a month to pay for my Medicare coverage, which is pretty import...

It was Father's Day today and the tributes to dads across social media can make a lesser mortal believe he could never be a halfway de...

Photo: Nate Ryan A few years ago, when Meniere's Disease was leaving me in desperate shape and a doctor in Woodbury had pronounced th...

It'll take some time before I'm able to write properly about my penultimate day in the radio business, which culminated with a 2 1/2...

Last week I made public that I'm done with the business of radio, and my mother in law didn't recognize my wife when she showed u...

This week I found some of my old favorite pictures that were taken in the film-era and started digitizing them. Not surprisingly, it brought...

Old people tell young people all the time that life is short and passes fast and young people don't believe it. It's been that way...

Back when my two sons were very young (10 or 11 or so), I shared a pair of season tickets to the Minnesota Timberwolves with some people a...

Sixty-eight years ago tomorrow, the United States dropped a nuclear bomb on Nagasaki, three days after it dropped one on Hiroshima. The da...

The construction crew arrived today to take out the old blacktop driveway that I have been trying to nurse through another season for the la...

I accept as a casualty of my age that I am more prone to believing that elements of our cultural past have lessons for our cultural present,...

Sometimes, I think I'm too risk-averse to be a pilot. For the past six weeks, I've been planning a trip to Arizona with my younges...

It's funny how the news can take you back to being 8 years old again. This is the picture-of-the-day for the storm that's hammered...