Joe Dubin

1 week ago | mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Joe Dubin

JOE DUBINMain Street Media of TN Recently, I had the wonderful opportunity to speak to Habitat for Humanity Nashville and Wilson County at their annual luncheon. It was a packed house, and as I was going over last-minute changes to my speech, I stopped to hear the testimony of someone who had just gotten a house from Habitat. Now, if you don’t know, they don’t just give you a house. It is a process. A long process that requires patience, commitment and dedication. Oh, volunteering as well.

3 weeks ago | mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Joe Dubin

JOE DUBINMain Street Media of TN My son is graduating from high school this month, and for some odd reason, as I have written before, I am having the toughest time with it. Funny, my daughter graduated back in 2017, and I was over the moon excited for her. Why, though, is this one giving me so much trouble? I tried to explain in that story that writing is my therapy, and that did help, but I never found the answer. Maybe I am not meant to.

1 month ago | mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Joe Dubin

One summer night back in 1988, I was working as a valet parker at Opryland Hotel. Late that night, a guest arrived in one of the coolest cars I had ever seen. A Sterling. All the bells and whistles and leather and everything you think a fancy British car would have. As I am going to park the car, I wave another valet over and say, “Let’s see how fast this baby can go on Briley Parkway.”We got on Briley and turned around at Two Rivers Parkway.

1 month ago | mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Joe Dubin

The last semester of my high school life was something that went by in a flash. June seemed a long way off for graduation when we started school in January. Yes, we were supposed to get out in May, but believe it or not, it used to snow a lot, and so school stretched into June. There were college choices, ACTs, senior doings, prom and then graduation. Not once, not one time, did I think about what all this meant to my mom.

2 months ago | mainstreetmediatn.com | Kara Aguilar |Joe Dubin

I could not do it. No, thank you. I could not do it. Frankly, I don’t know how anyone does it, but I have utmost respect for those that do. I don’t think they do it for the glory because if this is what glory is, boy I missed this one by a mile. A referee. An umpire. An official. You could not pay me enough money to do these jobs. I recently sat courtside at a college basketball game and some of the things they yelled at the referees would have made Redd Foxx blush.