Parker, Florida Writer

To my knowledge there's only one other author who lives in Parker, Ann Pratt Houpt. She has written Parker, Callaway, and is working on a proposal for Millville, for Arcadia Publishing's Images of America Series.

That's where I live.

So home, in OLD FOLKS AT HOME, is Brenda's old home place in Parker, which we are buying from her brothers and sister.

Here's Brenda with her crop of heritage-seed Seminole Indian pumpkins.

I used to call myself a Florida writer. A Florida writer is one left out of the year-end round-ups of "Who is the Florida Writer?" "What is the Florida novel?"

I am always left out of those.

But now, I call myself a Parker, Florida writer, and put myself in the year-end round-ups. In my own year-end round-ups.

I call myself a Professor of Cracker Studies, without portfolio.