All dressed-up in a Zoot suit – With a watch chain made of Jute –You can give your horn a Toot – While findin’ ways to spend your Loot!Feelin’ 10 feet tall – ‘thout Wearnin’ Boots –And never give a Poot –We laughed and thought it quite a Hoot –Then found it truly did take… Read More Coot by Gaylia Kenslow Stogsdill
It’s Springtime in Dixie, All the is fair to see,If it were not for the folks at home, It’s good enough for me.The flowers are blooming all around, And birds sing all the day,They want to make me happy, Just before I go away.Oh, the river and the ocean, Their beauty can’t be told,My heart… Read More WHEN I GET HOME AGAIN by Katherine Cary Place
Congratulations Amy –First you crawled and then you walked,And then you talked and talked and talked!!!The days rolled by and then the years,First day of school – you showed no fear.For 13 years you have progressed,Ands passed some quite exhaustive tests,You followed your dream to truly excel,And you have done exceptionally well.As a family we… Read More Congratulations Amy by Gaylia Kenslow Stogsdill
Come on home we want to see you,Want to visit for a while,Want to talk the old days over,Want to see your sunny smile,How we plane to have you with us,Talk about it day and night,Hope you will not disappoint us,Dear that wouldn’t be just right,Life deals out some tangled problems, Can’t make out the… Read More WAITING (To Elizabeth) by Katherine Cary Place
Words can’t express quite how I feel, I truly can’t believe you’re real.Bro’ Possum from your busy day, You’d find the time to send my way.Sketches and a story too, Sincerest thanks from me to you.Gaylia Kenslow StogsdillA thank you note to the artist Lowell DavisCopyright Roy Richard
Just a little woman, tender and true, Just a little mother that loves as mothers do,But a friend that’s full of cheer, A friend you trust and tell your secrets to.Just a little woman, frail and weak, Just a little mother mild and meek,But the glory of her smile, Makes you feel that life’s worthwhile,Makes… Read More Veva by Katherine Cary Place
One up with everything,Only a Flintoid would know that order.What’s a matter with you?THAT is NOT a chili dog, it’s a Coney Island,Chili dogs are wet and covered in beans and chili.Here let me tell you about them.Kogel’s Vienna Hot Dog, Steamed Bun,Diced onions and Yellow Mustard,And Coney Sauce!Beef heart and kidney simmered and dried.That’s… Read More One Up With Everything
Alfred P Sloan – A Friend to No OneI recently wrote a poem about the 1936 Sit-Down strike in Flint, Michigan and I began to wonder about the man who was president of General Motors at the time. Alfred Pritchard Sloan Jr. (May 23, 1875 – February 17, 1966) became president of General Motors in… Read More Alfred P Sloan – A Friend to No One
The Yellow HouseUntil I was about five, a family of multiple children lived next door. Their house was a poor kept, two-bedroom bungalow with no basement. One of my earliest memories is of the children coming out of the house to play in the summer. They must have finished breakfast and their mother shooed them… Read More The Yellow House
We lost our fur baby/companion Maggie Mae this past week (01-08-2023). She was diagnosed with diabetes two years ago and more recently with Cushing’s disease. Both of those diseases are hard on a dog’s body and we were lucky to have her in our lives for as long as we did. She was our companion,… Read More In Memory of Maggie Mae
Ramblings of an Old Coot 