As we step into the new year, I thought it might be fun to take a few minutes to look back at just a few highlights from this past year...

It turns out Santa Claus is a biscuit & gravy fan. Yesterday he made his yearly trip from the North Pole to our little family cafe...

Starting in January, I'll be writing a monthly column in a wonderful magazine called 'Plain Values'...

Stand-up comedian Henry Cho is coming to the concert hall at our farm on Dec 3rd...

'Little Huck, the water duck wasn't like the others' And so begins the story of Little Huck, my new children's book..

From 2012-14, my wife Joey and I had a television show that was on every week all across the country. And it completely changed our lives...

I've had the privilege to be on the Today Show a few times over the years, but this time was a bit different...

After months and months of working; recording, mixing, filming, editing, and waiting - my record Gentle Man comes out in stores today...

Indiana loves to dance. She always has. So when she started real ballet lessons here at home, she was really excited...

We hosted a big event here at our farm last weekend. 350 people from all across the country came to 'learn how to homestead in a weekend'...

"To the casual eye it's a barstool, but it's really much more than it seems. A few songs & then, I'm with her again..."

In May 2014, Joey celebrated her first Mother's Day with our two-month-old daughter Indiana. Today we celebrated it the best we could...

When Indy's grandma was in town recently, she showed Indy how to Mama our new baby goslings...

Well..the unimaginable has happened. There's really no other way to say it. It's the same song, only someone else is singing with me...

Our little family cafe's slogan is: "changing lives, one bite at a time..." and I believe they do just that. They have sure changed ours.

Indy and I drove to Indiana a couple of weeks ago to spend time with family and attend a farewell party for someone special...

My moment of surrender was on a bus going nowhere. During a time when I was doing well on the outside, but on the inside, I was drowning...

On Sunday, Joey got to see her Daddy again for the first time in 5 years. On her side of heaven, I'll bet there was a lot of rejoicing...

On our farm, we have been homesteading for a while now. Working to build a more self-sustainable life, in every possible way...

We all sat on a blanket by the cross and talked about Indy's Mama and how it has been five years since she passed away...

Indiana recently turned seven years old. How can that be? Just yesterday, I was carrying her around everywhere...

Indy had her first horse riding lesson last Saturday afternoon...

Five years ago, Joey gave me a gift. A Valentine's card. It was the last note, the written words, and card I would ever receive from her...

Joey's daddy came to visit from Indiana this past weekend and spend a few days here at the farm with us...

On Thursday night we had our first songwriters show at Marcy Jo's Muletown in a long while... and it was wonderful!

This is the first song I’m sharing from my new solo record. Even though it's nearly 60 years old, it feels like it was written for today...

Our family restaurant had a special 'friends & family' trial run last night in Muletown...

Just a few days before the kids' Christmas break, the schoolhouse here at the farm held a special "Little House On The Prairie" day...

I’ve got a soft spot for life-changing stories. Especially in this age of cancel-culture where we are led to believe...

After twelve weeks of raising them, on Saturday, we harvested almost a hundred of our chickens here on the farm...

Early this morning, Indy and I helped round up the turkeys that in a few weeks we will be "giving thanks" for...

Indy wanted to walk to school by herself for the first time this morning - and so I let her. She walked, and I cried... the whole way....

After lunch today, in the bed swing on our back porch, one of our favorite children's books came to life today...

It was sunny and beautiful here on the farm today. Perfect weather to get some work done and have some fun together doing it...

After being shut down for a few weeks because of co-vid, our family-owned cafe is re-opening, starting tomorrow morning...

I’ve been thinking about doing a podcast for a good while but have never done one, til now...

I was looking through an old hard drive the other day and came across some footage I hadn't seen before.

I've been dreaming of getting a new Zero-turn mower. A few days ago, Indy and I made another trip to Tractor Supply...

It was a beautiful day here on the farm for a ride... on a bicycle built for two.

Starting today…my birthday... I’m going to start doing a daily FLOG (farm + vlog)...

It was a special day at the farm today. It was sunny and beautiful, in the middle of January… but it was also the last day for a couple...

Indy’s favorite show is called “Anne With An E .” It’s a new Canadian tv series that has found its way to Netflix, and in time, our...

Sharing the song “Jingle Bells” yesterday that Indy sang, reminded me of another Christmas song that a different little girl once sang...

This is a song I’ve heard a million times, but not like this…