When I was somewhere around 5 years old, I went on a long walk with my Grandmother. And we left her house totally out of sight as we journeyed to the grocery store. In my mind it was easily a walk between countries. Or at least to another state. But, as it turned out, the little mom and pop grocery store was only about … Read the rest…
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1938. It was a cold day in January. In rural Oklahoma. FDR was in the first year of his second term as president of the U.S. And a second daughter was born to a young couple named Lee and Syona. But it was also a time when America was still struggling to recover from the Great Depression. So, when the little family was ready … Read the rest…
Hey…Remember America? What A Great Country That Was! Long before I ever had even a notion of writing or singing for a living I remember my brother and me traveling with our grandparents through the backroads of a country called America. And I remember our parents taking us for excursions through sections of it called Kansas, and Oklahoma, and Texas. Here are a few more … Read the rest…
Unique gifts are the ones no one was expecting…except for one. You. In fact, when you were conceived, they said your mom was “expecting”. When a mom is “expecting”, what exactly is she expecting? An apple pie? A new car? New shoes? A phone call? None of the above? Yep, the answer is “none of the above”. When a mom is “expecting”, it means … Read the rest…