first time

What those of us over the age 30 take for granted are completely foreign to today's kids and teenagers. My sons saw a record player, you know, an old turntable the other day and asked me what it was...same thing when they saw my Walkman...yes, I STILL have one.

Everyone knows by now that George Strait and Garth Brooks performed together last night at the ACMs for the first time. That was for me, the highlight of the evening, but the meaning goes so much deeper than just two of the biggest stars in the history of country music together on one stage. The reason that moment last night was so significant was simple...George Strait.

Amy is a 26-year-old mom who has been deaf since birth. Amy has never heard her own voice, let alone the voice of her parents or her six-year-old son, Blake. Thanks to some new technology, that is about to change for Amy.

There is no shortage of videos on YouTube showing military parents returning home to their families. In most of them, dad is surprising his loved ones who have no idea he is home and every one of them is more than worth the time to watch. The below homecoming video just might be the greatest of them all...

Kid videos are the best because kids are so natural and for the most part, uninhibited. The ACM Awards are on Sunday night and Jason Aldean is up for several awards including the fan-voted Entertainer of the Year and if the 3-year-old in the below video could vote, no doubt he would vote for his hero. Watch as he performs 'Dirt Road Anthem" although Aldean has never done the song in a 'Sponge