About

Who am I?  Sometimes I’m not even sure how to answer that question, so consider this page a work in progress.  I hope to improve it in due time.  What follows is a sketchy and somewhat superficial answer.

You’ll find a few links in this post both to other things I’ve written and to other websites.  Click on those as you go, if you want to know a little more about me.

My name is Barry Wallace.  I was born in 1955, and spent the first 12 years of my life in Grand Tower, Illinois, a very small Mississippi river town in the southern part of the state.  My family moved to Chester, Illinois at that point, which is where I lived until I graduated from high school in 1973.

After spending a couple of years in college as a music major, I began to question everything about my life, including my choice of majors.  Unsure what I wanted to do, I quit school and found myself asking much larger questions about life , and the reason for my own existence.  If you want to know more about that, see the page entitled A Bad Heart.

Having lived in Sikeston, Missouri since 1975, I now consider it my home.  I’ve been employed by the Sikeston Board of Municipal Utilities since 1980.  I’m a member of Trinity Baptist Church, where I teach a men’s Sunday School class and serve on our worship team.

I have a beautiful wife, who loves me more than I deserve.  We have five kids in our blended family.  We both love all five of them as our own, but if you want a breakdown, it’s yours (2), mine (2), and ours (1).

There is one final thing I want to share about my life, and it’s actually not about me as much as it’s about the person most responsible for shaping me, my mother. Mom passed away two days before Thanksgiving, 2007.  I spoke at her funeral, followed by my sister and brother.  You can listen to our tribute to Mom by following this link:

Honored by Her Children