Conaway: Something wild. Something beautiful.
CLAIMING OUR ISLAND. I said I’d start the year with a couple of ideas.
Conaway: World-Class Idea
“OF OUTSTANDING UNIVERSAL VALUE.” I thought I’d start this year – our bicentennial year – with a couple of ideas. Seems like a good time for new ideas, and some reminders that this place is special – even if so many of us have forgotten that. It was, in fact, special long before any of us arrived.
Conaway: Jud Strunk made me cry
A DAISY A DAY. A couple of weeks ago, a friend made a request for one of my former columns – like a song request. That’s only appropriate since it was a column about a song, and I think an appropriate column for the end of a year, and particular ends and particular memories for each of us. So this one is for you, Dick. And for me.
Conaway: My Christmas Story
CHRISTMAS TIME. Every Christmas I tell this story, and in the telling Christmas comes home. This year, I’m telling it in memory of my big brother, Frank. His pub – or as they say in England, his local – is central to the story.
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Conaway: The soluble problem
Every day in the U.S. there are 10 accidental drownings – 3,500 a year – and it’s the second-leading cause of death among children 1 to 14.
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Conaway: Our other riverfront
OUR FORGOTTEN TENNESSEE. Ray Skinner called me the other day and told me a story. He has a bunch of them.
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Conaway: Gravy. Maybe.
LET’S SEE IF WE’VE GOT GRAVY. I’ve been part of the breakfast cooking team at my church for decades, and for the first 20 years or so I stood next to Dr. Fred Sage. Fred did sausage gravy. I did eggs, 72 at a time.
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Conaway: Ginkgoes and thanks
LOOK FOR THE WONDER. REPEAT. Every year, no matter what. And it’s happened again. Despite it all.
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Conaway: Just imagine
I’m feeling better, thanks.
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Conaway: There’ll be another train
I’m taking a breath. The election is over, and however you may feel about the outcome, the sun has managed to come up the last three days regardless. My back hurt before, during, and after the voting, and nobody running helped me get my socks on in the morning. The person who does that got my vote a long time ago, although she may be looking for another candidate.
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Conaway: You’re being insulted
If you’re not mad, you’re not paying attention.
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Sounds of note
I was having a pint in the Eagle when I heard them.
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Conaway: The women. Still.
UP TO THE WOMEN.
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Conaway: Not No, But Hell No
We, my friends, are being had – and we should have none of it.
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Conaway: It all depends on your point of view
Coming from Arkansas, it looks like Oz.
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Conaway: How can a place so warm and soulful in so many ways be so cold and soulless
Thursday night, Memphis took a bullet.
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Conaway: Memphis is one of a kind
Really unique is really not. Memphis is.
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Memphasis: All Funked Up
(This was my first column some 400-plus columns ago. I was looking for a word that most aptly describes Memphis. Just one word …)
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