I struggled to catch a breath as I leaned up on my pillow, trying to find the next clear bit of air and pull it into my lungs. I often wondered if there would be another breath but there was an endless desire to keep trying. As a child, like many others I suffered from […]
I am often asked the question “How do I get into acting?” to which I answer, study, study and study, followed by working in every possible opportunity that avails itself to build a resume and gain experience. It is not an easy adventure no matter where you call home but if you love it, the […]
Some say it was a coal mine cave-in. Others say it was the fever, but whatever the reason my Grandpa Harve found himself orphaned in a time when, if children were lucky, some relative or caring neighbor took them in. I don’t know much about his childhood, although I am told his tales of life […]
One of my readers wrote in and asked for a bit of humor, so I decided to share these comedy routines below. Remember all they asked for was a bit!
When I was growing up there is hardly a Saturday at 7 that did not pass without our television being set to watch “Hee Haw.” One of the most iconic members of that huge ensemble cast was the comedienne Lulu Roman.
Through my years as part of the bluegrass music industry, I have been blessed to come to know many great musicians and singers who hold spots of esteem in the eyes of their peers and the lovers of the music. One of those groups, who also like myself travel from the great state of Georgia, […]
When you got up this morning, did you wonder what you were going to do today? Most of us have a routine that we are locked in, work, school or family activities.
Well its 2013, the world did not end as predicted. So I guess that means we must continue to earn money, pay bills, meet our responsibilities or someone will come and take us away. Well not maybe us, but our stuff that we have borrowed from others through all those plastic moneymakers in our pockets. […]
As I took the pocketknife from my blue jean pocket, I opened it to the punch and began digging another hole in my leather belt. It is was easy to see that the Thanksgiving and Christmas season provided me a gift beyond measure, at least the measure of what my waist once was.
It was just over 20 years ago when two-time Dove Award nominee Mark Wheeler of the Marksmen Quartet and I created a Christmas song beckoning listeners to do just that – “Let’s Live Every Day Like It Was Christmas.” Millions around the world have heard songs or tunes I penned for radio, movies or television […]
