Here Comes Yesterday

Send us Fan Mail I pray for us all...This 250th Year Since the founding of our Country... but the spark of a Second American Revolution is underway. 

Send us Fan Mail What do Fred and Ginger and Teddy Roosevelt have in common?  No, not tap dancing, but rarther a commitment to all out living, living the strenuous life. Just what does that mean?  Listen here. 

Send us Fan Mail Vinyl records just passed $1 billion in sales in 2025 and are now the leading physical music format This month we talk with Greg Allen,the owner of Animal Records, a vinyl store in downtown Evanston. He's spinning good vibes and building a community for the hordes of Gen Z’ers and Millenials,and even old folks, who are flocking  to Animal Records as part of a national trend a...

Send us Fan Mail Earth Day this year comes in the midst of an unprecedented attack on efforts to control pollution and deny climate change by America's national leadership.  This podcast recalls the exciting early days of enthusiasm by Americans for cleanup some 50 years ago. 

Send us Fan Mail As we grow older we learn one very unhappy truth – old age is a series of take aways. People, places, memories, combinations of all three are gone. And so  we all march backwards to reclaim those hours, days, even minutes of happiness that have been so cruelly snatched from us by time and space.

Send us Fan Mail For our annual St, Valentine's Day podcast, we offer a short story about a moment of unexpected  love in a turbulent religious time.

Send us Fan Mail As 2026 gets underway, I think many people are reluctant to look back on 2025 with warm feelings. Good riddance . Putting all of those dark thoughts aside, I did want to go through an inventory of other things that I hope I will see less of in the coming year and look at a list of resolutions. Cliche, but important. 

Send us Fan Mail I read small town newspapers to relax sometimes. This holiday season it didn't work out so well. Letters from a column on Families that Need Help caught my eye and brought some tears. I share some of them in this podcast. 

Send us Fan Mail In our society, we are currently seriously fretting about the future of work, where A.I. artificial intelligence is going to take over our world and we are going to be out or work, impoverished and left to our own devices. I want to take some time in this podcast to walk us through how difficult this may be to come about by simply looking at the real world that surrounds us all

Send us Fan Mail The Research for this podcast started with me dumping out a bowl that contains matchbooks from dozens of joints I have been to over the decades. The old matchbooks recall more innocent times, long, long ago when people went out to have fun.

Send us Fan Mail Here's our take on three  communications strategies to help the hapless Democrats successfully  relate to the American public and win the 2026 Congressional Election

Send us Fan Mail It's easy to be embarrassed about how much time you spend with your cell phone.  I am - sometimes. But  there are plenty of reasons why my "apology" here is really a defense. Listen on...

Send us Fan Mail When I think back on life and look for lessons one that always stands out is that life is a series of subtractions – all the great people and places and events that came to you early on are seemingly subtracted year by year as you get older. The great old TV shows, the way people treated each other, the innocence of times past and most importantly the people who had such a great e...

Send us Fan Mail No man is an island. Our lives are made up of communities. Membership gives us connection.  Communities are crucial and essential parts of our lives. 

Send us Fan Mail One of the most recognized football coaches in Northern Illinois is walking off the field after  38 seasons with Notre Dame College Prep and 20 trips to the State Finals. Mike Hennessy  reflects on his amazing journey. 

Send us Fan Mail About two out of every three households in the U.S. have a pet. From "Cat Ladies"  to Gen Z'ers to Empty Nesters, the urge to own a pet is stronger than ever. We take a look all the wonderful choices. 

Send us Fan Mail Young love is going through some turbulent times these days, so for this St., Valentine's Day podcast, we shift our attention to ups and downs of older love.

Send us Fan Mail In January, our thoughts turn to..... making it to another year. It's all about heath and those resolutions we're going to follows. Right?

Send us Fan Mail Christmas for a child becomes the start of a journey we revisit and enrich year after year as our lives move forward. In this podcast we look at Christmas through the decades.

Send us Fan Mail Yes, you can be happy at work. IF you work hard, work smart and enjoy the surroundings. Here's how.

Send us Fan Mail Whether you believe it or not, you're pretty lucky Because of where and when you were born to begin with.  After that is when things start getting interesting.

Send us Fan Mail Every day 120 thousand music tracks are uploaded to YouTube. in This podcast we showcase classic American pop tunes from many eras to show how music enhances poetry and tells a story. 

Send us Fan Mail Those wonderful Mother Goose rhymes can create a life long love of poetry and rhyme.  We offer a crash course in appreciation of the poetic art. 

Send us Fan Mail Here's an inside look at our blueberry farm in Michigan where farming is a lot more than an old guy riding a tractor. 

Send us Fan Mail Isn’t it everybody’s dream…. to have a little place in the country to escape to? A place that you can go when you want to get out of Dodge?  A place where she can have a garden and the kids can run free and where he can take his dog for a hike in the woods?  Here's one man's story.