Opinion: I was born lucky, but don’t tell anybody. That’s illegal.
Dan Conaway: ‘This is not about guilt. This is about awareness. If you were born white, you did absolutely nothing to deserve the privileges you’ve enjoyed because of it.’
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July 2021
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June 2021
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Opinion: Angels are and have been with us
What made them angels was the sacrifice they made expecting no recognition at all.
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Opinion: A road trip from Memphis to Memphis
We haven’t been on the big road trip in two years — the one we used to take every year to visit family and friends. We haven’t seen our son-in-law in two years, our daughter in a year and a half. Our dogs haven’t seen their dogs.
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April 2021
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Opinion: After an Arctic blast, scratch and look for green
People say wait, give things a chance. Take a limb and scratch it. Look for green. If there’s even a trace of green, there’s hope for recovery.
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January 2021
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Opinion: A single rose from 2020
What is the single rose we can take from that pile of a year? As hopeful as it may be, it’s not the vaccine.
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Opinion: When horseback rides and weddings meet, it’s happy trails
What makes weddings cool has nothing to do with hundreds of people in church or a few in a cabin. It has to do with two people agreeing to share the trail, with all its ups and downs, and to get wherever they’re going together.
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December 2020
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Conaway: ‘This is my Christmas story’
It was the last Christmas all three sons would share with our parents, although none of us knew that at the time, and the last Christmas I would be single, and I guarantee neither Nora nor I knew that at the time.
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October 2020
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Good stories are worth retelling
The book, a collection of his columns and mine, is titled “In A Colorful Place,” and it will be published next month. Good stories are worth retelling and we’ve picked some we think are good enough to share again with you. As always, you’ll be the judge.
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September 2020
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I still believe — in Santa and the post office
The United States Postal Service will deliver the mail in spite of rain, sleet, snow, gloom of night and political pressure. Believe it.
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Opinion: We stand at the crossroads
"We stand at a crossroads in November. The answer is not the road to the far left or to the far right. The answer is right there in the middle, where we can see all directions and best determine the way forward, where we can safely and respectfully return after going our separate ways."
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Opinion: The Tasteful List 2020
Presenting the Tasteful List 2020 — my tenth annual alphabetical presentation of local favorites, from A/M breakfast to waffles.
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August 2020
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Conaway: The rest of the world has to wonder, what in the world are we thinking?
There will be a vaccine for COVID-19. In the meantime, we will continue to suffer from chronic, fatal stupidity.
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June 2020
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Conaway: Katz and rats, dads and doughnuts
A funky triangle bounded by Park, Lamar and Airways would be the first shopping center where things would start to change, where black and white Memphis would mix and mingle, where Memphis would start to look like Memphis.
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May 2020
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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.
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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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