Stirrings from the empty nest

Sara Meyer, the longtime producer and conscience of Minnesota Public Radio News, gave me a great book when I retired in May 2019. And t...

The Current staff in 2015 (Nate Ryan photo) Back when I used to be allowed on the radio to explain why public radio was worth your dime ...

Perhaps this is a condition of the aged, but I suspect people of a certain age tend to struggle trying to mute an inner voice when reading c...

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...