Here Comes Yesterday

Send us Fan Mail Major league baseball ain't what it used to be. It's noisy, expensive and not so popular anymore. But baseball still can be  fun.

Send us Fan Mail Spring 2022 - when we finally got rid of the masks and came out to smell the real world. Even with the guns of Kiev in the background. A trip Colorado validates newness and promise. Spring might hang you up but it also frees us to believe again.

Send us Fan Mail Imagine going back to your high school decades later and finding it almost just like you left it. Could that possibly be?  In Niles, Illinois, Notre Dame College Prep is just like that.

Send us Fan Mail There are certain markers that tell us that winter is fading away – snow turns into rain, Easter and Passover are on the calendar, crocuses  are starting to come up …. Neighbors start disappearing.  It’s a good chance they are on their way to warmer climes.  Like Florida.  When  you get the urge, here are some tips to make your Florida trip  really enjoyable.  

Send us Fan Mail We spend 90% of our time indoors!  It's a bad habit made worse by the screens that memorize us and also by the pandemic. Let's take a hike, let's sit on the porch, let's breath some fresh air.

Send us Fan Mail Love goes well beyond sexual connection. To mark St. Valentines Day this year, we honor the kind of love that's hard work - carrying for people in the later stages of life and try to answer the question, "How do they keep going?"

Send us Fan Mail Meet Frankie Corrado (my grandson). He's a junior at the University of Wyoming majoring in elementary education. He, like thousands of other college students survived a year  of Covid. How's he doing?

Send us Fan Mail Being "creative" or "Making Art" are words that casually used today. Shouldn't we have a little more respect for this process and what comes from it?

Send us Fan Mail Whatever happened to social dancing?  It was a great way for people to connect socially.  When you think about it, its the second best thing a man and woman can do together. 

Send us Fan Mail Ah, Spring!  When a young city boy’s fancy turns to thoughts of…. Farming? But the girl's a farm escapee hiding in Chicago so  when Jake finds Lenore, aka Twinkle, sparks fly. The journey of discovery begins when he leaves the big city to grow blueberries in Michigan. Follow their journey to the land where nuts grow fruits. Kinda based on a true story, Blue Acres offers a hum...

Send us Fan Mail Are hobbies a thing of the past?  Today we call watching TV a diversion, a hobby. Is it really? There are passive and active hobbies. We should probably be engaged in both, especially as we get older.  From quilting and gardening to sports and skills like woodworking we sure have lots of choices. Time to get off our butts and get going.

Send us Fan Mail We can tell many of the stories of our lives through the cars we drive.  My experience with cars covers over 60 years and each car tells its own story

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Send us Fan Mail The big lesson I learned early on in teaching was students learn best when they learn by doing. It's still true.

Send us Fan Mail My bucket list leaks.  One goal goes in, another goes out.  Also, i've found that there are two kinds of lists - one is very specific like learn to play piano. Another is more general: spend more time with friends.

Send us Fan Mail It's easy to make a baby, but not so easy to raise one. We look at the joys and difficulties men face in their most important role.

Send us Fan Mail What's it look like behind the scenes at your local farmer's market?  We do a semi-fictional deep dive into the lives of key players on this weekend excursion.

Send us Fan Mail A travelogue through my career in journalism. It all started with a guy named  Roger back in 1952 and launched me into a career that's lasted a lifetime.

Send us Fan Mail Keats said that heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard are sweeter. Not when it comes to remembering our friends and family.  Here is the why and how of it all when it comes to speaking praise of those with us and not.

Send us Fan Mail This is a pean to the great television being produced these days in Europe.  From cop shows to comedies, the wild variety and charm of Euro TV gives you a reason to watch TV again, if you can get past the subtitles. I have.

Send us Fan Mail My bucket list has a leak in it!  That's because it occasionally changes or I reshuffle it.  Also, it's divided into specifics  like "learn to fly,"  "produce a musical" and broader goals like "Enjoy more time with friends,"  "Live to the fullest"  and "Get into heaven."

Send us Fan Mail Since I was a young Tenderfoot scout, I have had a life long love affair with camping. As a result of Covid, people everywhere are "getting out of Dodge" to smell the scent of pine. You can see it in the stream of trailers along the interstate destined for driveways everywhere. 

Send us Fan Mail Ok, you've got boxes and boxes of old photos, movies, tapes, news articles and heirloom chotzkies.  This episode ruminates on various ideas for transferring them to the next generation. It ain't easy.

Send us Fan Mail In this inaugural episode, Frank Corrado introduces himself and reflects on why we should remember and celebrate those moments which have been highpointsin our lives. His list includes a simple birthday celebration, a college graduation, a tango dance and a theatrical production.