The Memory Cache -- Now on Substack!

Hello, and greetings to all my friends, family and interested readers!

As you may know, since early 2022 I’ve been posting to this personal blog site, The Memory Cache. The blog contains reviews of books, movies and television I’ve consumed and enjoyed, information and opinion that I wanted to share with all of you and the world. My site recently passed 29,000 views since it began, and continues to draw new readers.

During 2024 and early this year, I spent most of my creative energies on writing Dawn to Dusk, a Storyworth memoir for my close family and friends. I have no plans to share it with a wider audience, but I wanted to let you know that this writing project and its time demands were the principal reasons I didn’t post much on The Memory Cache last year, and also have written and recorded no new music during that time.

Fortunately, that book writing project is finally completed. It’s in print now, and is being shared with those for whom it was written. Now I’m clearing the decks to resume writing more often for The Memory Cache, and also heading back into my studio to make new music. 

In conjunction with my return to more active posting on The Memory Cache, I am also now on Substack. Starting in the next few days, I will be posting all my new articles and posts (including this one) for the blog web site on my Substack account as well.

If you previously signed up to my mailing list via my music web site at Wayne Parker Music, you have been added to my Substack mailing list. Of course, if you don’t wish to receive these emails with my new articles and posts, please do avail yourself of the “Unsubscribe” button. But you’re on the list initially because you had previously indicated an interest in my creative activities.

If you think you are a subscriber, you should have received my first post (this message) as an email yesterday. If you didn't, please check your spam folder for an email from The Memory Cache at Substack, and if you find the email there, put my email address on your "safe senders" list so they won't be blocked in the future. 

If you’re not on my Substack mailing list, but would like to be, there’s now a link on this site that will take you to Substack to sign up. There’s no paywall on my posts. It’s all free, at least for now.

And now, a word about our current circumstances. When I began The Memory Cache, I didn’t plan for it to have an overtly political purpose, but of course, my reviews and the content I have chosen to write about have undoubtedly reflected my general political and emotional biases, and my reactions to the world around me.

I don’t expect that to change. Probably like most of you, I am hyper-focused on and aware of the daily onslaught of bad news for our democracy, our country’s reputation in the world, our economy, science and education, our environment and our health. Fortunately, there are many other voices, sources of valuable news and smart opinion on all this elsewhere, especially on Substack, as well as at major news outlets and advocacy organizations.

My intention is not to add directly to that coverage, but rather to continue to publicize and comment occasionally on notable intellectual and artistic content around us that can help us understand the complex and difficult problems we face, and sometimes also enjoy moments of reprieve from it all in the form of leisure and entertainment.

If you enjoy and value what I have to say on the blog and on Substack, please tell your friends, and help me build my audience.  My user/writer handle on Substack is @thememorycache. You can follow all my creative activities on Bluesky, Instagram, Facebook and YouTube at @wayneparkernotes.  And thanks for your interest!