Member Biography
Wally Lee Parker
For someone who consistently got D’s in English, it seems odd that
I spend so much time writing. It seems
even odder — considering
that my spelling is atrocious, word usage novelistic, and punctuation backwoods
at best — that I
designed and ended up editing several pamphlets and the first dozen and some
newsletters for the Clayton/Deer Park Historical Society. I recognize that being drafted into that
group’s editor’s chair could be considered an opportunity to learn all these
things, but that would assume my poor excuse for a brain was still up to the
task of being educated.
Over the years I’ve
had a few articles published in the Deer Park Tribune, and about three in
Nostalgia Magazine. Thusly I’ve
developed one of them love/hate relationships with editors — though mostly
said relationships seems to favor the latter.
Which I say with some sympathy, since I know just how miserable an
editor’s job can be.
Right now my main project is my
blog. I’m going through my files,
searching for things fit to paste. I’m
also running commentaries on subjects that interest me. And I’m putting various bits of research
materials online in the hope that others might be able to help in finding
pieces of data needed for future
articles. You can find my blog via the link listed
on the SASP homepage.
Below I’ve pasted a
bit of my ancient verse. (Follow the link.) I say ancient because I gave up writing what
passes (in the trailer park at least) for poetry quite a few years back. All I’m doing now is retrieving my old poems
and isolated bits of verse and trying to clean them up enough to be seen.
Anyway, that’s about
all I have to say. If you want to talk
some more, you might try bogwenreportonline@gmail.com or the
“comments” link on my blog. If either of
those works, it will increase my faith in technology at least a sliver, and
otherwise amaze me no end. And if all
else fails, I can also be found on Facebook.
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