Conaway: Scratches don’t define life; they define experience
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.
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Earlier this week, Debbie walked around my car with a pink marker.
As she did, I was transported back 11 years. I was sitting on the bank of the Wolf River, drinking a longneck Ghost River beer and talking to my daughter, Hallie, in Pennsylvania. I remembered a guy showed me how to open the beer with a Bic lighter in the absence of a church key. I also remembered, a very long time ago and also in the absence of a church key, I’ve been known to do that with my teeth.
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