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BILL BLOG June 1, 2026   Monday morning, back home in Nashville. And it’s the 1 st of June.   82 for the high today with a slight chance of bad weather.   THE WEEKEND Friday morning, our group of 5 songwriters got up for breakfast at a place that was recommended near our hotel in Elmhurst, Illinois where we were staying for Freedoms Sings USA retreat. And what a great recommendation it was. If you’re ever in Chicago, check out one of these places. Then it was off to O’Hare with 5 guitars, and some downtime waiting on our Southwest Flight home. We certainly had a great time writing with veterans up in Elmhurst, Illinois, and playing for those folks.   NEXT I’ll be back on a plane this Friday for a two-day Freedom Sings USA retreat in Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina—our first trip to that city to write with veterans.     NEW TRIP I just found out that our Freedom Sings USA group will be returning to Greensburg, Indiana, ...

BILL BLOG Friday, May 29, 2026   And it’s Friday, and time to catch a plane back to Nashville.   A high of 86 today here in Chicago. And it’s hard to believe we are into the last weekend of May.     YESTERDAY Our Freedom Sings USA songwriter group gathered at a beautiful house owned by one of the hosts of our retreat here in Chicago. Laura Michaud in Chicago. Her husband is a builder and built this gorgeous 7,500-square-foot home with plenty of rooms to accommodate 5 songwriters and veterans. I teased her at the concert last night that it was the most beautiful double-wide I had ever been in.   Laura told us about this amazing collection of glass canes that her mother collected from all around the world—never seen anything quite like those.     I wrote down stairs with Army veteran Christine Seagrave , who served as an MP for several years, before a fight with a woman she arrested in Panama injured her wrist so severely that ...