Memphasis > Same Name, No Relation
June 23rd, 2016
THE NAME OF WHAT WE ONCE HOPED TO BE AND WHAT WE’VE ACTUALLY BECOME. Andy Holt. The late Andy Holt from Milan, a school teacher, a coach, and once the principal of what is now Campus School in Memphis, the national president of the National Education Association, and president of the University of Tennessee. His Columbia doctoral dissertation was about the ...
Memphasis > A Place To Grow
June 16th, 2016
SEEDING TOMORROW IN WEST TENNESSEE. Things grow in Hardeman County. Crops, livestock, husbandry in all its forms – and relationship grows there, too, between the wild and the tame, between an abundance of resources and their conservation, between awe and understanding. The University of Tennessee is planting something new there in fertile ground. In a place ...
Memphasis > It'll Leave A Mark
June 9th, 2016
THE MARKS WE’RE LEAVING. People were hooking up, shooting up and throwing up in the woods, on benches and in cars and right in front of children on the Greensward. Like the weeds, pretty much everywhere. Like the privet, pretty much out of control. Like the shell and the rose garden and the lake and the forest and the picnic grounds and the pride of a city, pretty ...
Memphasis > Real Memphis
June 2nd, 2016
THE REAL DEAL. When our daughter was five we took her to Disney World and totally encased ourselves in Disney plastic. To this day, I’m still haunted by strains of “It’s A Small World” that won’t leave my head, still having nightmares that I’m still in line for Space Mountain. The third day there, we took a boat to a lake island for a ...
Memphasis > Insulting In Style
May 26th, 2016
INTELLIGENT INSULTS. CLEVER COMEBACKS. As we brace for this summer’s political conventions and a general election that promises to raise the lowest levels of public discourse to new heights, I thought I’d share some of my favorite exchanges collected over the years to remind us that we can do this sort of thing with style. I’m thinking you’ll be ...
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