Conaway: This is who your city looks like. See her.
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway is a lifelong Memphian, fascinated and frustrated with his city, but still in love. A columnist since 2010, his distinguished advertising career has branded ribs in the Rendezvous and ducks in The Peabody, pandas in the zoo and Grizzlies in the NBA. Stories in Memphis tend to write themselves. He’s helped a few along. Two book collections of his columns have been published.
I want you to meet somebody. Her name is Olivia.
She’s Black, 4 foot-5 inches tall, and weights 81 pounds. She lives with her mother, three siblings, her grandmother and one uncle.
For this exercise, I’ve given her a dog, actually several dogs she has to feed, but the little funny-looking fuzzy one is hers. She named him Tother, because her brothers just called him “the other one” since he showed up uninvited.
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