divergence
A couple months ago, a camera crew from North Carolina came and spent a couple of days at our farm filming some of our story and life...
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this life i live
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Jun 19, 2022
papa what if
it's a very special Father's Day for me this year. Actually a special Papa's day...
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May 4, 2022
The FLOG is Back... sort of...
For the next 30 days, we’ll do our best to make 30 flogs as we countdown the days and prepare for The Homestead Festival...
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Apr 26, 2022
an evening of hope
Next Friday, Bob Goff is coming to be our guest speaker at our yearly fundraising dinner for the school...
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Apr 20, 2022
build it and he will come
A few weeks ago, we had some fun in the backfield behind our farmhouse recreating the opening scene of Field of Dreams...
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Apr 12, 2022
flower girl
This weekend Indy and I made a quick trip to Indiana for my nephew Cody's wedding...
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Mar 21, 2022
a league of our own
Without meaning to, there seems to be a theme to everything that is happening around us this Spring... baseball.
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Mar 1, 2022
field of dreams
On June 3rd & 4th here at our farm, we're putting on our first annual Homestead Festival...
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Jan 2, 2022
twenty twenty-one
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...
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Dec 12, 2021
breakfast with santa
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...
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Dec 1, 2021
plain values
Starting in January, I'll be writing a monthly column in a wonderful magazine called 'Plain Values'...
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Nov 17, 2021
funny farm
Stand-up comedian Henry Cho is coming to the concert hall at our farm on Dec 3rd...
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Nov 4, 2021
Little Huck
'Little Huck, the water duck wasn't like the others' And so begins the story of Little Huck, my new children's book..
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Oct 14, 2021
the joey+rory show
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...
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Jun 25, 2021
today
I've had the privilege to be on the Today Show a few times over the years, but this time was a bit different...
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Jun 18, 2021
gentle man
After months and months of working; recording, mixing, filming, editing, and waiting - my record Gentle Man comes out in stores today...
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May 30, 2021
ballerina
Indiana loves to dance. She always has. So when she started real ballet lessons here at home, she was really excited...
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May 28, 2021
learn to homestead
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'...
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May 18, 2021
time machine
"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..."
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May 9, 2021
motherless day
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...
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Apr 28, 2021
'grand' mother goose
When Indy's grandma was in town recently, she showed Indy how to Mama our new baby goslings...
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Apr 23, 2021
one more angel
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...
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Apr 22, 2021
small talk cafe
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.
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Apr 19, 2021
farewell party
Indy and I drove to Indiana a couple of weeks ago to spend time with family and attend a farewell party for someone special...
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