Author: Kesley Colbert

I don’t remember graduating from kindergarten. But I bet you we had ice cream and Miss Katie hugged each one of us. I’m not too far out on a limb here. Two of Miss Katie’s all-time favorite things were ice cream and hugging. If me and Yogi talked about life lessons we had learned in…

Will Rogers died in a plane crash on August 15, 1935, near Point Barrow, Alaska. On August 16, 1935, in New York City, Patsy Montana and the Prairie Ramblers recorded “I Want to Be a Cowboy’s Sweetheart” for the American Record Corporation. You would think one had nothing to do with the other. And neither…

There are tremendous advantages to growing up in a small town. For one thing, it doesn’t take long to get from one end of it to the other. Now, you might not think that a big deal… But if you had been playing baseball in Billy Gwaltney’s side yard all afternoon and completely lost track…

The first bit of “story telling” I can remember was about a dog and a bone. This wayward hound was crossing over a small stream on an equally small bridge (the Childcraft book had pictures) carrying a bone in his mouth. Mother read how the dog saw his own reflection and, greedy for the “other…