Calkins: Could pandemic last another year? A handbook for how to cope
“Out here, you have no idea there’s a pandemic,” ‘TrashMan’ Bryan Fox said. Fox, who picks up garbage on the greenway every day, crosses the Wolf River while scouting the for trash left by bikers and joggers Sept. 12, 2020. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)

Geoff Calkins
Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. He is host of "The Geoff Calkins Show" from 9-11 a.m. M-F on 92.9 FM. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
Dr. Anthony Fauci said that it may be late 2021 before life begins to feel normal again. So how to we persevere? Here is the wisdom of three people: Kirk Whalum, a character called “TrashMan” and my 95-year-old mom.