My fascination with the Olympic Games began a long time ago. Back when the dreams of being an Olympic athlete were beginning to rumble through my small head. It was 1976. Montreal, Canada. I was a mere three years old when my parents ran the last kilometer with the Olympic flame, escorting it just before it lit the actual torch… View Post
Country Music Artists at the ACMs Talk Hope, Music and Child Hunger
He sat in the back of the classroom. Kept to himself. Brought his lunch in a brown paper bag. Every day he pulled half a sandwich from his bag, and a small piece of bruised fruit…. if he was lucky. Every day he folded that same brown paper bag up and put it in his backpack to take home. It… View Post
I Believe: The Love Of A Child Can Heal Anything
“Are you Ok, Mommy?”…. my small girl has asked me every single day for the past week. She has reached out to hug me, wrapping her tiny arms around me, pulling my head, not to hers, but to her chest, so that she might pet my hair….a comforting gesture I would like to think she has learned from me. She… View Post
The Perfect Date
I had a date Friday night. This Girl was the most beautiful thing I’d ever seen. She had sandy brown hair, with deep, dark brown eyes, and a smile that made me smile. Really. She would smile, then I would smile instantly. I tried to play it cool, but she made me feel like I was a kid again. We… View Post
Hunter Hayes talks ACM’s and Writing “Here’s Hope” for Child Hunger
I’ve always believed it is one of my primary responsibilities to teach my kids to ‘give back’…. to understand that there are people, kids especially, who have greater needs than them. Some kids don’t have toys, or clothes…. and they don’t have enough food. A few years ago, my small people and I held a Lemonade Stand to raise money… View Post
My Heart Is Aching, But Heaven Is One Star Brighter
It always happens. The morning after. You wake after a night of crying, a day of loss, and you have one moment…one beautiful, solitary moment when everything is right in the world. Because THAT is the moment before the moment when reality crashes into you like a semi truck in the wrong lane speeding at you in a nightmare. And… View Post
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