The bane of retirement is contentment.      Who said that? you may ask.  An ancient Greek philosopher?  An old world sage?  No, just an old hillbilly song and book writer who is speaking from experience.  Let me put it another way; the more I enjoy this retirement the less I want to do.  And that’s […]

I was on a week’s vacation with the family when I got the phone call Sunday night a week ago.   Jimmy Dean had passed away about an hour before and Donna, his wife, didn’t want  me to hear it on the news.  How very thoughtful of her with all she was going through at the time.  But that’s the

It’s been a while since I’ve written anything for the website.  The Christmas holidays were full and I just didn’t find the time.  I’ve heard from a lot of good folks who wanted an update, and to be honest there are a few things happening you might be interested in. A couple of weeks ago,

If you have visited my website before, you may have noticed I post many of my speaking engagments.  You also may have noticed that I try to delete them immediately after I’ve fulfilled them.  This comes from a lifetime pet peeve of seeing the circus poster still in the drugstore’s window two months after the animals have left

I just got some good and interesting news I thought I’d share.  O Little Town, which had a great Christmas season thanks to all you folks who bought it (and I hope read it), has won an award.   It’s called an ADDY award and it’s given by the American Advertising Federation.  It’s for the book cover and

For the past few months I’ve been doing some speaking engagements.  I’m not much interested in traveling anymore so they all have been fairly close to home.  I’ve also been doing some book signings and they haven’t been very close.  But still, I enjoy them all. The speaking engagements are usually churches and not all

We have received so many congratulations from so many good friends from around the globe in the recent days and most have asked about the Medallion Ceremony Sunday night in Nashville and exactly what took place.  I’ll try to recapture it as closely as possible although it felt like a dream sequence even as it was

What’s On My Mind right now is the upcoming Country Music Hall of Fame induction of the Statler Brothers.  This will happen in Nashville on Sunday night June 29th of this year.  And what this means to my ‘brothers’ Harold, Phil, Jimmy, Lew and myself is not something I’ll probably be able to capture in