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twas a few days before christmas...
On Wednesday morning, we took a family trip home to Indiana to celebrate Christmas a few days early with Joey's family. We had such a wonderful time. I started to write about the trip, but in the end, nothing I could say captured it as well as a few lines and some video clips I took with my iPhone...
a baby changes everything
She didn’t want to have a baby. She told me so. Dozens of times. In 14 years of marriage, it was literally the only thing that we ever really argued about. Until one day in the summer of 2013, when Joey came to me and out of nowhere said, “I’m ready”...
sign of the times
Dolly called and talked to me last week. She's gonna be here this Saturday doing a concert in our barn for Indy and her friends. Well, not Dolly exactly. But Indiana's Dolly is...
the right left hand
Our book goes on sale today. Pre-sale that is. Filled with hundreds of stories about our lives, and my life before and after Joey - this is one of my favorites...
bailing hats
I'm what the old timers might call a 'gentleman farmer'. I've got the acreage, the tractor and bib overalls - but what I'm lacking is experience...
standing o
On Saturday night, for the first time in a couple of years... I walked out on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. It was beautiful and surreal at the same time...
sand and water
...I found myself thinking about how most movies cost a lot of money to make. And how this one cost nothing. Nothing that is.... except everything.