Stirrings from the empty nest

I had to change my cellphone service today because Verizon is raising their price by $20 a month. With the new sim card arriving, I quickly ...

Ed Bell with Mike Miller in a WHDH production booth  (Post updated 1/28/25) Word reached Flyover Country today that Ed Bell died yesterday. ...

Somewhere around 2009, we were ready for a new dog following the untimely death of Otter the Wonder Dog (whom my wife thinks was poisoned by...

 I had lunch with a long-time best friend colleague during my working years yesterday. She came out to the hangar for a picnic. She left MPR...

 I don't do much writing anymore. Once writing was a joy, before Minnesota Public Radio basically beat it out of me thanks to writing 17...

  This guy has been my friend longer than anyone else on the planet -- my twin brother, shown here at my oldest son's wedding with his i...

Just a few months before I left the Berkshires and moved to Minnesota, a freak October snowstorm hit The Great Northwest and Minnesotans hav...

 Dexter Michael Collins arrived on October 2, 2020 late in the evening, accomplishing what no one else has on Planet Earth: he made me a gra...

(Originally published May 23, 2019) I occasionally get mail looking for help finding someone or wanting some information from a NewsCut po...

I'm reprinting some of my favorite NewsCut posts. This one is from May 31, 2019 I actually thought I had nothing left to say. An...

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...