One of the songs I used to sing at the nursing
homes was “Country Sunshine.” This song is in many ways the story of my life.
As one of my friends used to say, “You can take the girl out of the country,
but you can’t take the country out of the girl.”
I grew up in the Ozark hills where the trees
blocked some of the country sunshine. The truest part of the song was how I was
happy with the simple things, and I still am.
My brothers spent time on the...