finding… josephine
It’s hard to believe, but it’s been almost four years now since Joey and I moved to Virginia to make the movie Josephine.
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this life i live
stories of faith, hope and love
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Nov 6, 2018
the cow said neigh!
A couple of years ago when the folks at HarperCollins approached me about writing a children’s book, I jumped at the chance...
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Nov 5, 2018
the first daughter
Recently I shared the funny story of how Joey and I met President George W. Bush at a TX Rangers baseball game in 2011. I met his daughter..
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Aug 27, 2018
boomerang
In early June, Heidi asked me if I would come into a studio with Firekid to sing on the recorded version of Boomerang...
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Aug 21, 2018
living a great story
“I’m getting scared honey. Can you come home now?”…was all Joey said. I hung up the phone and took off running down the crowded sidewalk...
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Aug 10, 2018
once upon a schoolhouse
Once upon a time… there was a little girl and her Papa and an idea about building a school at home. In a little less than a year, that...
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Jun 29, 2018
the extra mile
Indiana has made lots of wonderful friends at High Hopes, the pre-school she’s been going to for the past two years, and I’ve been...
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Jun 25, 2018
presidential treatment
This is a chapter from my book ONCE UPON A FARM “and I met the president of the United States . . . again.” —Forrest Gump We have some...
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Jun 20, 2018
last letters
this is the last chapter in my memoir “Once Upon A Farm”… Finding the good in goodbye. It was the twentieth of February 2015 and seventy...
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Jun 19, 2018
i choose love
I have been thinking a lot about this blog post for the last few weeks. How best to thoughtfully write and share it, and also what the...
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Jun 15, 2018
what about bob?
His name is Bob. He’s a successful lawyer whose main office is on Tom Sawyer Island at Disneyland. He’s the U.S. consulate to Uganda, he...
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Jun 7, 2018
same kind of different
We launched a new website yesterday. Well, I didn’t exactly. But Aaron and Marcus and Steph and some other folks around me did. It’s...
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May 24, 2018
child bride
My niece Rachel had her wedding reception in the barn this past weekend. Rachel is my youngest sister Candy and her husband Keith’s...
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Mar 8, 2018
it is well
Two years… that’s how long the invitation to Joey’s funeral service has been hanging on door inside our kitchen. Two years… that’s half...
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Feb 5, 2018
foreward
They say you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, but for my new book that is coming out this June, I disagree. What’s on the front of my...
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Jan 15, 2018
little people
I went with my friend Bradley Walker to a 60th surprise birthday party in Athens, Alabama on Saturday night. It was for another friend...
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Jan 5, 2018
wrap around porch time
It’s been five days now since we’ve had any hot water at the farmhouse. We’ve tried putting a big heater under the crawlspace to heat the...
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Jan 1, 2018
unfrozen
The thermometer outside near the kitchen window this morning said ‘9 degrees.’ The weather app on my iPhone said it felt like 5 below....
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Oct 27, 2017
stage flight
In the summer, at a press conference in Nashville for Music Health Alliance, I decided to perform a weekend of shows here at our farm and...
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Sep 22, 2017
home school
She’s three-and-a-half years old, going on... well, four. Walking. Talking. And learning new things everyday. Like Indiana, I’d like to...
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Jul 10, 2017
a new song
“I don’t want to be here.” That’s what I said into the microphone as I stood beside Gloria Gaither at the Friday night orientation dinner...
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May 2, 2017
an easter gift
About two weeks ago, I made a quick trip to Washington D.C. and came home to a special gift...
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Apr 11, 2017
if not for you
n the spring of 2005, Joey recorded a solo album that no one has ever heard...
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