Conaway: Of Katz and rats, dads and doughnuts, then and now
Dan Conaway
Dan Conaway was a freelance columnist with The Daily Memphian from 2018 to 2025.
I’m not going to start this story as so many stories start: “I might have told you this before.”
There’s no might to it, I have.
Here it is again because it visited me again this week. Came right through the open window and settled in my coffee. Snuggled itself in between the lines I was reading.
Here it is again because the past is our official destination.
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