Living through this, killing time
Much as I miss you, Memphis, I don’t want to see you up close for a while yet. And I’m going to keep finding ways to spend time without most of you so that I can see a lot more of you later.
Topic: Dan Conaway
RSSThere are 194 article(s) tagged Dan Conaway:
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May 2020
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April 2020
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Conaway: Thanks, 524 times and counting
You keep me going. Even the reader who called a recent column “a load of horsehockey,” and all those who’ve been more direct.
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March 2020
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Conaway: Home sweet office
When you’re on camera, your background and work area are visible. Don’t make them the star of the show. For instance, a home bar in the background or a TV screen on a freeze frame of "Game Of Thrones" reruns.
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January 2020
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Conaway: Bonds and toilet seats
A University of Tennessee fraternity brother invited me to lunch the other day, he said, to share my experience writing a column with his son. Instead, he turned to me and opened with, “Tell him the toilet seat story.”
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Conaway: The us of us
We contain multitudes.
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December 2019
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Conaway: Another one lost, with none to lose
A tribute to one of the great guys: The ones who knew you – not just your political beliefs or your fandom or your kids’ names or your tells in a poker game – you.
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November 2019
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Conaway: Look for the wonder. Repeat
My family has been visited by death, near death and deadly threat, by deceit and heartbreak, ... But we’ve also been visited by each other, by shared experience and gained appreciation, by children and grandchildren, by a lot of friends and a lot of delightful silliness.
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October 2019
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Conaway: A note on my birthday
A conversation on a library loading dock between two Memphians inspires thoughts on the 'different cities in the same city.'
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September 2019
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Conaway: The Tasteful List 2019
A Memphian’s ninth annual list of his favorite local dishes.
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August 2019
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Conaway: Building better boxes
We are just a president’s cruel tweet away from Baltimore, a look in the mirror at a majority-minority city reclaiming its historic buildings, its downtown swimming in development and promise while the city struggles with how to share that promise with so many drowning in poverty.
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Conaway: Learn. Don’t return.
Nostalgia can be fun and comforting. It can’t be a destination. Don’t long to go where you can’t go, long to make where you’re going better.
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July 2019
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Conaway: Those in charge of saving our lives can’t seem to save information
My doctors seem to have no idea who I am. I had back surgery in November and follow-up appointments since, but I’m still asked to fill out a complete online personal medical history, family medical history, and identity check including photos, front and back, of all requisite cards and documents in advance of my next appointment.
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June 2019
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Conaway: Life isn’t a line; it’s a circle
Our grandchild, born June 10, is part of the flow of the Mississippi where my father's ashes are, and the stream in upstate New York where my brother Frank's ashes are. Just as every one of us is an individual, every one of us is part of something larger, connected in ways large and small, and always to place.
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Conaway: A brother remembers
He was 13 years older, the blond guy in the living room reading books and blowing smoke rings, off to college when I was 5, married and off to the Iowa Writers’ Workshop when I was 12.
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Conaway: A Memphian’s real-life adventure serial
Richard Halliburton wrote a steamer trunk of bestsellers and syndicated articles, but to call him merely an author would be like calling Indiana Jones merely an anthropologist. And while Indy’s unbelievable fictional adventures are just that, Halliburton’s unbelievable adventures were real.
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May 2019
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Conaway: The quintessential Memphis story of Clarence Saunders
Saunders' tale is a roller coaster ride from rock bottom to dizzying height and back again, a journey that left an indelible mark on the world.
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Conaway: Looking at Tom Lee Park
We’re about to spend $50 million to fix something that’s not really broken, and throw chump change or nothing at all at opportunities for true transformation.
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Conaway: Don’t fail this screen test
The NBC series "Bluff City Law" is about fighting for civil rights in Memphis, and there’s a very real chance it will be made somewhere else.
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Conaway: You’re better than that
We must find a way to take the warmth around our tables, the generosity in our hearts, and what I believe to be the genuine decency of our nature, and carry it to the chambers of those elected to lead us.
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