Opinion: And yet, I love my city
Quick quiz: Is this A) the surface of the sun, B) the seventh circle of hell or C) a Memphis sidewalk in July? (Yes, it’s A.) (AP Photo/Via National Solar Observatory)
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
‘Outside is as hot as the seventh circle of hell because it’s Memphis in summer. And yet, I stay. I’m home. My memories are in the grid and grit of this place, on this river, in these people, those here and those deep in my bones.’
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