Glenn Shepard’s Personal Blog

Love Letters to My Beautiful Bride

glennshepard — Wed, 01 Sep 2010 14:08:07 +0000

Feedback on the 8-31-10 issue of Work Is Not for Sissies

glennshepard — Tue, 31 Aug 2010 07:00:06 +0000

Aftermath of the Nashville Flood, 8/30/10: “The Last Rodeo”

glennshepard — Mon, 30 Aug 2010 21:23:16 +0000

The Country Music Hall of Fame After the Flood

Brooks & Dunn, the most successful duo in country music history, will be performing their last concert next Thursday. Since one of their hit songs was “That Ain’t No Way to Go”, they wanted to go out with style, and they are. Proceeds from their last show will go to benefit the Country Music Hall of Fame, which was hit hard by the May Flood. That definitely IS a classy way to go.

Washing Dishes Was Never So Scenic

glennshepard — Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:46:42 +0000

View of the sunset from the kitchen window of the new Casa De Shepard.

And Then There’s Low Tech

glennshepard — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 21:49:22 +0000

After my 83 year old father in law told us how amazed he was at how high-tech the house deal was yesterday, I confessed that I think technology has done as much harm as good for most people, and things have gotten too darn complicated. It just happened to come up that he was throwing out a 17-year-old Kenwood stereo system with separate components because he prefers his modern new compact Bose radio. Ironically, I lost an almost identical Kenwood system in the flood, and had been watching Ebay for something close to replace Old Faithful. He was so honored that I would want his old stereo, and I am so excited to have a real system the way they used to make them. Who knew :0

Sold in 7 Days

glennshepard — Fri, 27 Aug 2010 21:46:20 +0000

After I spoke at a conference of presidents of Chambers of Commerce in Lafayette, Indiana yesterday, my beautiful bride and I spent the night in Muncie with my father-in-law. While he was driving us to Indianapolis to do a little shopping today, I got a phone call from our realtor in Nashville, who just received a contract on our old house, for full asking price, one week after we listed it ( the same day USA Today ran a story about how no one is buying houses). We needed to find a Kinko’s, so my father-in-law used OnStar in his new Cadillac to navigate us to one, which was only 4 miles away in the Indy suburb of Fishers. The realtor faxed the contract there, I signed it, Kinko’s scanned it in, we then emailed it back to him, and continued on with our shopping. It is truly amazing how easy technology has made our lives.

The World’s Greatest Book Title

glennshepard — Thu, 26 Aug 2010 21:44:30 +0000

This should be required reading for every high school and college student.

Aftermath of the Nashville Flood, 8/25/10: “The Numbers”

glennshepard — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 21:17:21 +0000

The reason I continue to write about the flood is because it continues to affect so many lives, yet so few people – including many of those who live in Nashville but were not affected – understand how long it takes to recover. According to the Greater Nashville Chamber of Commerce, 2,773 businesses in Nashville were directly hit by the flood. Of those, 442 are still closed, including the Opryland Hotel and the Grande Ole Opry House. That amounts to 14,500 employees who lost their jobs, even if they didn’t lose their homes.

Feedback on the 8-24-10 issue of Work Is Not for Sissies

glennshepard — Tue, 24 Aug 2010 07:00:23 +0000

Marriage and Money

glennshepard — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:16:58 +0000

From Dave Ramsey: There is a proven statistical correlation between the quality of your marriage, and the probability of your building wealth.