Home Page> NEW stuff Page> Writing Content Page> Guest Artists Page> New Writing Stuff July-August  NEW WRITING “Mom’s Weird Rules” poem by Wayne Edwards “Wrecking Crew Limerick” poem by Chip Hill “Hurricane Hilary” essay by Corky Cummings “In the Garden with Dr. Carver” essay by Samuel E. Pittman II “The Secret” essay by Russell Cushman “Fear of Trying” essay by Chip Hill “The Sanctity of Human Life” essay by Chip Hill “Throw Pillows” essay by Chip Hill “Uncle Sam, You Got a Lot of ‘Splanin’ to Do” essay by John Pinkerton “Your Vote” essay by John Pinkerton “The Kiwi Man” essay by John Pinkerton “Deranged” essay by John Pinkerton “You’re a Jet” essay by John Pinkerton “Eddie Faust” essay by John Pinkerton “Kryptonite” essay by John Pinkerton “Laugh, Damn It” essay by John Pinkerton “Boy Was That a Mistake” essay by John Pinkerton “The Wonderfulness of the Moment ” essay by John Pinkerton “Past Lives” essay by John Pinkerton  Chip Hill now has his own page for his poetry. Check it out at The Poetry of Chip Hill. “I just released my 5th book in the Cloudland series, Battle For Cloudland, https://www.amazon.com/dp/1733873988.  And check out my new and improved website (same address)https://www.chip-hill.com.” Chip has three new essays for us this issue. Always interested in writing, he pursued it more actively in his retirement years. He presently has five children’s books published and available through Amazon: Cloudland, Return to Cloudland, Beyond Cloudland, Cloudlands & Darklands, and Battle for Cloudland. In addition to his children’s books, Chip has a book of essays covering a wide range of subjects, Thoughts from an Observationist: Recorded from 2014-2021. A current and major project for Chip is his musical, Finding, about a teenage girl trying to filter out the noise in her life to discern her feelings about God. It premiered in College Station in April, performed by the Brazos Valley TROUPE, and Chip is looking forward to performing the play at other venues. Chip has a new poem for us.  WRECKING CREW LIMERICK (2010 Aggie football) There once was a Wrecking Crew D Made their foes in their pants take a pee On the gridiron of Kyle They’d attack with a smile And the Aggies would have one more V. Ol’ RC and Bob got it going And soon the excitement was growing The blitzing and hitting Pursuit without quitting Had offenses scared and yo-yoing But as in fair Camelot of old The embers of passion grew cold The conference it changed The staff rearranged The Ag D began to get rolled The Austin Pied Piper was grinning And guru Mel Kuiper was spinning No Game Day in sight The twelfth man in flight You’re relevant only if winning The times are a changing they said You can’t stop an offense that’s spread Your stars are too few Can’t spell Wrecking Crew Let’s face it, your program is dead But somewhere up North in Big D T’was one asking how can this be? Technique and desire Are all I’d require To get those Ags playing like me We sighed oh if only they could! When this guy played he really was good! DeRuyter and Sherm Were soon to confirm The offer, and he said he would! Then to Kyle came the new Leachless tards Who saw some revenge in the cards But the red raider sorts Got it shoved up their shorts And the Crew’s rep began to enlarge The Ags dreamed the drought would now end With the thought of the defense he’d mend A new day we see On this we’ll agree We think Dat’s a guy who will Nguyen  The other day I was pleased to receive an email from Alice Hein Schiel, ex-student and friend of mine. I had invited Alice to share some of her writing with Old Art Guy years ago. She has agreed to not only share examples of her own poetry, “Little Chick-a-dee” and“Pinnacle of Life,” but also the poetry of two of her siblings: Sarah Hein Munoz’s “I Recommend Jesus,” and “Return of the Yegua, 2003” by Tilman Lloyd Hein. When Alice informed me a few years ago that she was writing a book, Nora Mae, a Remarkable, Insignificant Person---her mother's life story---I wasn’t shocked. She, along with her sister Sarah, were excellent writers when they were in school in Somerville. Alice’s book won the John E. Weaver Excellent Reads Award for Non-Fiction Biography. Her book gives a historical picture of life in Burleson County, Texas, from 1916 to 2011.  Alice has now published three books and enjoys speaking to book clubs, library groups, church groups, and schools. She went on to write and to publish two more books: Old Yellowed Hat and Pen of Gold: and Other Poems and Essays to Inspire. Her books are also listed in the Book Store.  I have eleven new essays this issue: that brings the total of my essays to 511. My book, Old Guy: Folks I Like, is available now for $10.00. The title pretty much tells the whole story, and it’s pretty fat---forty-eight essays. I’ve just added one new essay to the book: “Eddie Faust” about an ex-student who passed away. It’s a good read, and you will be a better person for having read it...more or less. My new book Old Guy Does Fiction and Poetry and a Few Essays is finally available . There is both a soft cover ($10.00) and a hard cover ($15.00) available. “Buy it, read it, enjoy it.” The book contains eight fictional works, twenty-four poems, and fifteen essays. Even I like this book. My old new book, Old Guy Pontificates on Art and Words is available at Amazon. The cost has been reduced to $10.00. Notice the John Grant art work on the cover. Don’t forget about my old new book, Old Guy: I’m Still Here which has also been reduced to $10.00. By the way, my good friend, John Grant, provided the cover art. Thanks, John. My first book was titled Old Guy Has Final Word: It’s All about Me. I put that book together when I was extremely ill and suspected I probably wouldn’t be around long. Well, it turns out that I’m still here and have written over 500 essays. My first book, Old Guy Has Final Word, is still available at Amazon I’ve added a Kindle version. My book has been picked up by Barnes and Noble. The book is a collection of essays suitable to be read by both young and old, and it has been reduced to $10 for the soft cover and is only $5.00 for the Kindle version. Tell me how much you hate my writing at oldjwpinkerton@gmail.com and take a look at my bio page: John Pinkerton  Bill Neinast has published his column for the Brenham Banner Press for years producing thousands of columns, mostly political, and for several years sent them along to me to publish here. I have always admired Bill and his writing: I just can’t remove him from this page. Tell Bill you appreciate him and his writing at neins1@aol.com.  Ponk Vonsydow is the author of over twenty novels. Go to the Bookstore for the list and purchase information. Say “Hi” to Ponk at ponkvonsydow@gmail.com.  David Carlton has a new publisher for his book, Poetry of a Florida Cowboy, and will soon have a second book published, Reflections from my Youth, which is a collection of stories. Say “Howdy” to David at dcarlton@tamu.edu and see his website at http://www.cowboypoetry.com/davidcarlton.htm and view his book, Poetry of a Florida Cowboy, in the Bookstore. See David’s poetry at The Poetry of David Carlton.  Wayne Edwards has another humorous poem this month: Mom’s Weird Rules  My mom has some real weird rules
Of things she thinks I shouldn’t do.
Like putting sand in Sister’s bed
Or a green lizard in her shoe. Or what about what she told me
Not to pull the old cat’s tail
And not to make paper airplanes
Out of Daddy’s important mail? And she said that I must never
Feed Spot Dog my supper liver
Or scratch the black board with my nails
Just to make my teacher shiver. She said that when there’s company
I shouldn’t just sit there and stare.
And most of all I should never
Run through there in my underwear. When Grandm’s soaking her false teeth
I shouldn’t ever add blue dye.
And the trashcan’s not a ladder
To reach things that are up too high. How did I know that Mom had rules
For what goes in a VCR?
It’s little door was a neat place,
For me to hide my candy bar. For her to make so many rules
I think must be awfully tough.
How do you think that my mother
Can come up with all of that stuff? See much more of Wayne’s poetry at The Poetry of Wayne Edwards. See Wayne’s books in the Bookstore and visit Wayne’s website at familypoet.com and say “Howdy” to him at wayne@familypoet.com.  Sam Pittman, author of Alligator Jazz,  provides reviews of children’s books at Pittman’s Picks. Sam’s newest book is Alligator Slim and His Snazzy Jazz Band (Pelican Publishing). Sheila Bailey once again wonderfully illustrates Slim's adventures!” You might want to check out Sam’s YouTube Interview. Say “hi” to Sam at sam@samuelepittmanii.com. 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