The Haggard Generation

As many of you know who read my blogs, I love country music. Montgomery Gentry has a song called “Hell Yeah” where they talk about being “a product of the Haggard Generation.” Now, they may be talking about Merle Haggard and people who grew up listening to his music, but whenever I hear the line I conjure up a picture of many of us who are “haggard” due to running from work to school to sports to events for our children to work again. Many days we feel haggard and run down.

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