Calkins: How I know for certain this will be a ‘Happy’ new year
Virginia Calkins, age 96, looks delighted to receive a tortoise for Christmas. (Geoff Calkins/Daily Memphian)
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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.
My mother, age 96, got a surprising Christmas present. Let us hope it foreshadows the year to come.
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