Conaway: Christmas time, together at table and memory
“Four generations of two families over five decades have spent Christmas Eve with us around this table.”
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“Four generations of two families over five decades have spent Christmas Eve with us around this table.”
Germantown didn’t have to go all the way to the North Pole when the city’s official Santa Claus retired.
“It wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I realized nothing that can be wrapped will fully satisfy. And if the stuff in the boxes — the stuff I flew up and down Poplar looking so frantically for — won’t satisfy, what will?”
“My saying ‘Merry Christmas’ makes some people see me as a conservative, Republican, older, evangelical Southerner. Most of those judgments don’t actually describe who I am.”
Gift-givers can fulfill a child’s Christmas wish list through Youth Villages’ Holiday Heroes program.
“It tastes like the year we got married. Like our first apartment. Our first house. It tastes like becoming parents. Like promotions. Like graduations. It tastes like celebration, and like eating half of it on the way home from the bakery with your fingers.”
“Whatever your faith, whether you believe this is a time of anticipation and arrival, or of reflection or celebration, or of renewal or recognition — or all of those — I believe it’s a time to look inside to places only you can visit, to look at the paths traveled and at those who’ve shared the journey then and now, and to know, truly know, you are not alone.”
The unwrapping of Christmas ornaments can send a person on a trail of holiday memories celebrating good times, family, friends and places we have visited.
Where are some of the best holiday displays in Shelby County? We’ve got a map.
Santa has a very serious job, and Rick Jamison understands that.
Christmas in Collierville is returning after last year’s pause on large gatherings due to COVID-19 precautions.
Madonna Learning Center is offering its Christmas gift to the community online. After 50 years of the annual show, it has been canceled for the first time.
Many of the Lunches ‘n Love volunteers don’t have to imagine what it was like for those walking into the parking lot, hoping to leave with more than they came. They were once homeless themselves.
An old-time Christmas story, read aloud by Scott Morris, Kirk Whalum and Geoff Calkins.
Christmas Cove is a treasured tradition for holiday families. This year, the display has a deeper meaning and honors Dave Brown, the man who started it all.
The parade is taking place at W.J. Freeman Park at 2629 Bartlett Blvd. from 4 to 6 p.m. Saturday. That’s not Stage Road, where the city hosted parade onlookers for years.
Two Broke Bartenders is taking its services to Saddle Creek for the holidays.
This is about respect for time-honored process in a short-cut world, about pride in completion, about creating something for others. As chef Hallie said, “Baking is hard.”
'Out on the roof there arose such a clatter, more Downtown construction, the clang of a ladder....'
The Shelby County Sheriff's Office and the Order of the Boll Weevils delivered Christmas gifts to students at Vollentine Optional Elementary School Thursday.
In a small town outside of London, in a pub known only to locals, I found myself standing next to someone I was in the third grade with at Memphis State Training School.
Madonna Learning Center is performing its 50th Christmas play. Those attending the sold-out shows will see Madonna's journey as well as the celebration of Christ's birth.
The 12th annual Christmas parade includes separate band, float and car competitions.
A love of technology started Germantown family’s annual light display.
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