a gold record day
A couple of weeks ago, the nice folks at Cracker Barrel hosted a ‘gold party’ for our Hymns album...
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this life i live
stories of faith, hope and love
on the new frontier
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Mar 9, 2017
outskirts of heaven
A year ago today we laid Joey to rest in the grove of trees behind our farmhouse...
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Mar 2, 2017
ain’t my baby grand
I can hardly believe it, but Indiana is already 3 years old...
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Feb 15, 2017
one for the books
Last February, I shared a blog post called “a week to remember”—all about an amazing week my wife Joey and I had and the special moments...
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Jan 14, 2017
storyteller
I read a lot of books to our baby. I always have. Joey did too. She loved reading to Indy and I think that’s part of the reason that...
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Jan 6, 2017
first snow
We had our first big winter snow of 2017 today. Big for us anyway. Tennessee, or at least the part of Tennessee that we live in, doesn’t...
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Dec 24, 2016
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...
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Dec 20, 2016
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...
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Nov 9, 2016
sign of the times
Dolly called and talked with me last week. Well, Indiana's "Dolly" did...
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Oct 13, 2016
the right left hand
In the spring of 2002, I asked her what kind of engagement ring she wanted someday...
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Sep 27, 2016
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.
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Sep 17, 2016
sand and water
“I will see you in the light of a thousand suns… and I will hear you in the sound of the waves …Solid stone is just sand and water baby…...
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Aug 30, 2016
crib notes
As I sit down to write this morning, Indiana is stirring in her crib. She is starting the process of waking up and beginning her day......
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Aug 9, 2016
garden party
After editing our doc for weeks I was in need of a break and our garden was in need of love... fortunately some friends came to help...
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Jul 21, 2016
from blog to book
Over the last six months or so, I have been asked many times (and encouraged more times) to write a book. To turn the stories in this blog..
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Jul 15, 2016
a week out west
On Monday, we got home from spending some time out west in Wyoming and Montana. It was a trip that has been planned since last winter....
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Jun 29, 2016
strong foundations
Some opportunities in life are just too good to be true... and some, you can’t help but keep pinching yourself at how very lucky you are...
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Jun 16, 2016
to joey, with love
I have never been a great gift-giver. Like most men, when Valentine's Day or a birthday rolls around, I would scramble to find ‘just the...
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Jun 9, 2016
home alone
This past weekend, Indy and I went home to Indiana... without Joey. It was the first time that we’d been back there, since my wife’s...
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Jun 3, 2016
leave it there
It was her last request. The last thing on the list Joey gave me, of what she wanted at her funeral service... when the time came. And we...
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May 21, 2016
alive and well
I filmed our lives for two-and-a-half years. I don’t know why, I just did. Like writing this blog, something told me that I needed to...
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May 8, 2016
happy mothers day dad
I keep my guitar pics on my desk in a little bowl that our oldest daughter made and gave me one Sunday in May when she was probably five...
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