Memphasis > Soul Is Required
January 11th, 2018
TIME TO SEE SOMETHING NEW Years ago, friend Billy bought the Edge office supplies business on Union just west of other things that aren’t there anymore like Happy Day Laundry and Wiles-Smith Drug Store. I was in there one day when he asked if I wanted to see something cool. He lowered a pull-down ladder to an attic and sent me up. As soon as my head cleared the ...
Memphasis > Memphis Is Changing
January 4th, 2018
SOMETHING’S GOING ON HERE President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis, was invited back to Memphis in 1964 when black folks were getting all uppity during the civil rights movement. He has finally left the podium. Slave trader and Ku Klux Klan founder, General Nathan Bedford Forrest, was dug up, stuck on a horse and given a park in 1904 to put black folks ...
Memphasis > Outrageous 2017
December 28th, 2017
EVERY DAY, AN EMBARRASSMENT OF CHOICES This year is, thankfully, coming to a close. Early in the year, a group of us from here and there set about documenting the actions of an administration already out of control. We thought we would produce a calendar with an example for each day of something outrageous reported in mainstream media. Our research didn’t produce ...
Memphasis > My Christmas Story
December 21st, 2017
CHRISTMAS TIME Every Christmas I tell this story, and in the telling Christmas comes home. It was my first time to England and overseas, and prime time for The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and Soho. It was time to discover pubs, and Scottish eggs, bubble & squeak and spotted dick. Time to discover that bitter, served warm, is twice as strong as our brew, that a British ...
Memphasis > What To Give Them For Christmas
December 14th, 2017
GIVE THEM TOMORROW. See the children. See them run. See the children. See them play. See the children. See them see. See the children. See them learn. See the children. See all that’s possible. As I prepared to write the 2011 annual report for the Memphis City Schools pre-kindergarten program, just a quick review of numbers and stats told me that this ...
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