Memphasis > My American Story
June 22nd, 2017
DON’T CALL ME CHEROKEE, JUST CALL ME LEIF. As a kid, I was told I was part Native American on my mother’s side – probably Cherokee, they said, maybe Chickasaw. My mother, my aunt and my uncles weren’t sure which and how much and my grandmother wasn’t talking, but one look at any of them or at me or my children with our profiles of various ...
Memphasis > Sharing Yards
June 15th, 2017
ROOTS AND MONKEY GRASS So I’m waiting in line at Booksellers to get my high school classmate, Cary Fowler, to sign my copy of his new book when a moment of quintessential Memphis broke out. In front in me are two women about my age, identical twins. One interrupted my musing about attractive twins by turning to me and asking, “Are you Dan Conaway?” ...
Memphasis > Cracking A Smile
June 8th, 2017
ORIGINAL, UNIMPORTANT, THOUGHTS I’m on vacation, trying desperately not to think about anything important. I’ll be home next week – God willing and the Creek don’t rise. This week, I thought I’d share a bit of interesting trivia friends have passed along about origins of some of our common expressions. Think of it as a welcome vacation ...
Memphasis > Tiresome Behavior
June 1st, 2017
ENOUGH ALREADY. Even after months of mediation, after an agreed-upon compromise, after the appointment of a committee and the committee’s selection of a master planner, after the Overton Park Conservancy put up $250,000 toward the plan, after the council voted to take the Conservancy’s money … even after all of that … the Memphis Zoo stiffed the ...
Memphasis > Of Camels And Spoon
May 25th, 2017
SPOON. 2002-2017. We took a left off of I-55 somewhere around Coldwater and drove about ten miles through farms to our destination. There was a wooden sign with hand-painted numbers by the gravel drive. There was a Shetland pony in the yard. And emus. And a camel. Outside the house, seven or eight feral children were playing around a broken-down truck and ...
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