Marilyn Tullys
Marilyn has a Master of Arts degree from Kent State University with Post-graduate studies at the University of Akron, Walsh University, Ashland University and Cambridge University in England.
She is the author of numerous stories and articles for national magazines as well as curriculum published by the State of Ohio Department of Education where she received the Governor’s Educational Leadership Award from the State of Ohio and a Commendation from the Ohio House of Representatives in 1992.
Marilyn is a past vice-president of the Greater Canton Writers’ Guild and a long-time president of Ohio Poetry Day and the Canton Branch of the American Association of University Women.
She has received the Norma Award from the Guild in 2000 and the Shakespeare Award from the Canton Poetry Society in 2003.
In 2008, Marilyn was inducted into the Stark County Women’s Hall of Fame. She is also listed in Who’s Who of American Women.
Here’s To Y’all
Also a Hillbilly Lifestyle winner
Oh, who takes a shower
when someday it’ll rain
And who needs those dernd books
that instruct and explain?
Who wants to move
when it’s a fine day for sittin?
Scrubbin between yer toes?
why that ain’t quite fittin.
Doin other folks chores,
that’s not really my place.
The Good Lord made time a plenty
for me to waste.
Not fooling nobody,
on this earth I was put
Just to fiddle a tune
while yer tappin yer foot.
Ain’t hurtin nobody,
doing nobody wrong.
It’s my aim in life
to jest be gittin along.
If ya don’t fancy my style,
favor my ways,
Make high muckity-muck schedules
to spend yer days,
My hat’s off to ya brother
or sister or y’all.
Yer stepping down life’s road
hearin a different call.
It ain’t yer job to fix me –
don’t even dare try.
Know I’m drinkin one to ya
as yer passin on by.