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BILL BLOG Monday, July 13, 2026   Monday morning, and I’m back in Nashville, with another road trip this morning. More on that at the end of the Blog today.   85 degrees high with light rain in Nashville today. Meanwhile, back in my home state of Missouri, 6 to 12 inches of rain fell in southeast Missouri in what the Governor of the Show Me State calls a ‘1-in-a-1,000-year flooding event’   THE WEEKEND Friday night, I was back at Great American Ballpark to watch the Reds play the Cubs. And after watching the Reds lose the night before, it was fun watching them beat the Cubbies 4-0.     And I was enjoying the game with great company, Kevin Stone and his wife Lisa , and their three kids, all of them big baseball fans.      Lisa Shaffer Stone was the first girl in our “ Hits & Grins ” trio with Steve Dean and me.     And to this day, she’s still one of my favorite country-singer-songwriters , though she ...

BILL BLOG Friday, July 10, 2026    Good morning from Cincinnati, Ohio. Also known as “The Queen City” and “Porkopolis.” They used to drive pigs down the street. Don’t ask.   I’m in Cincinnati for this.      She’ll be signing a bunch of her books, and we’re hoping to see a bunch of friends on Saturday.   YESTERDAY My wife and I made the trip from Nashville to Cincinnati, and this was our first stop.   It’s the law. Had to have a three-way and a cheese coney before we ever checked into our room. Shortly after check-in,  I was sitting by the Pete Rose statue at Great American Ballpark.     And I was waiting for my friend from Dayton, Mark Bondurant, to join me.     Mark is a retired pharmacist, owned his own shop, and these days he writes songs for the same publishing company I do, Billy Blue Publishing . On the way up to Cincinnati, I called him at the last second to see if he wanted to jo...