A native of Arkansas but a longtime resident of Oklahoma, I am a professional copyeditor and an amateur writer with a love of the South, Arkansas, and the Mississippi River Delta. I have written hundreds of humorous and nostalgic stories, reminisces, anecdotes, poems, and essays, all based on my own life and experience and all with a spiritual foundation and application. Many of these works, which I refer to in biblical terms as My Oklahomian Exile Literature, were originally published in national, regional, state, and local periodicals. I have also written or collected hundreds of quotes on many of these same topics. It is these pieces and others that I continue to create that I would like to share with you in this blog.
For more about me and my work as a professional copyeditor, visit my professional Web site. It has a resume, examples of the publishers for whom I have done work and books I have copyedited, and samples of my writing: two stories of growing up in rural Southeast Arkansas in the 1940s and 50s.
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Yeah, Unlce Jimmy, I love your new blog!
Yes, I will say it again …………..love it all !
and, Good Luck ! Remember to have fun with it !
Fondly,
Patsy Mc
Very well done cousin. Interesting to read.
keep having fun with it Dad!
Mr. Peacock,
Your friend Ed Roling turned me on to your blog. I too am an LA (lower Arkansas) transplant to OK. I grew up in Crossett and graduated from Ouachita Baptist University in 2008. I now attend TU Law and live here in Tulsa. I have enjoyed reading your post and look forward to more.
I so truly love you Mr Peacock. You are a wonderful amazing gentleman and I am so blessed to have you and your beautiful wife in my life.
I came across your site via the Scotty Moore (Elvis) site. By coincidence we were both born in 1938 in the deep South. Specifically, I was born in northeast Mississippi. Later worked at a radio station in the Mississippi delta (WGVM..Greenville, Miss).. and a couple of years later as the nighttime DJ at WNOE in New Orleans in 63 and 64. If you lived in Okla in those years, I had many listeners in that area; perhaps you were one. Enjoyed the short video of the radio station and could identify with all the old equipment.. turntables, etc.
Mr. Peacock, Billie Fay Dickson Boyd is my mother. Need I say more?
I enjoyed reading your pieces regarding Selma as I, too, have many wonderful memories there. I also have many loved ones in the Selma and Tillar cemeteries.
But time with my grandfather, Vernon, made Selma a magical place for a little boy in thrall with his grandfather and Southern lore.
Mr. Peacock, I just discovered your blog and am really enjoying it! I was born and raised in McGehee. I’m Allison Starnes Tilley, youngest child of J.W. and Alene Starnes (sister of Jerry, Harry, Beaver & Barbara). I haven’t lived in McGehee since 1983 but I sure miss it…except for the mosquitos!
I named my daughter Isavillar Lee after her G-G-G Grandmother Isavillar Edwards who also has a Conrad in her geneology. Buried in Drew Co. Arkansas (Wife of Daniel G. Lee she died in a fire in 1889). It is a small world.
Glad you made it back (SFC Jim Lee, USA Ret.)
So glad to see you on here, Jim! Please contact some of your LEE cousins.
Hi! I came across this, and wanted to say that Jarrell Rial was my grandfather. Not by blood, but by marriage. He was a significant influence in my life. I was wondering if you have any more stories about him? I don’t know much about his younger years, and would love to hear about him!
Hi Jimmy.
Just thought I would leave a short note and let you know how much I have enjoyed all the SEARK history you have compiled. Absolutely fascinating and so interesting. I have learned so much more than I ever knew or heard about from growing up and living in McGehee. My dad, Charles Rodgers, told me and my brother David a lot about the local history and lore as we would drive around on family outings. I do enjoy reading all the historical information you have collected. That documentation is a literary time capsule treasure trove to those of us who lived in that area and saw first hand some of those things you describe. Keep up the good work.
Dale Rodgers
Hi Jimmy, I just spent all afternoon reading your blog and I love it. Brought tears to my eyes. I saw Mr. Seamans this Spring. My Mother (98) had to go to rehab in Dermott after a hospital stay. Mrs. Seamans is a resident of the nursing home and everyday Mr. Seamans comes and sits with her in the afternoon. They looked like to sixteen year olds in love. I enjoyed visiting with him. He took my wedding pictures . Look forward to reading more. Tell you sweet wife I love her. Jill May Lawhon
Just ran across your blog. I am living with and caregiving my mother, Betty Jean White Hogue, b. 1-11-31 in Florence, AR. She has many of your memories and says she went to school at Tillar High School with your brothers Adrian & Joe Peacock. I am going to my office today to print your blog for her to enjoy. Thank you!
Using your Blame poem and quotes about blame on my Emotional Fitness Training blog. Will give you full credit. Hoping you are well and staying strong. At our age it is not so easy.
Just saying Bonsoir! Not sure what made me think of you tonight, but I was delighted to find this site. I was one of your students at ASU, and you were one of my favorites. Glad to see what you’ve been up to since. I’ve been a law prof at UALR since 1992.