Memphasis > Getaway
April 18th, 2013
THE TIME TO GET AWAY IS CLOSE. One morning last week. Anderson’s dogs were running, impossibly fast, circling a field of new wheat, impossibly green, and then through the woods and past the ponds, Snuffy bounding just ahead of us and Bow Wow off to our right in the trees. Their eyes were bright and their joy obvious, impossibly happy. We were out in the country, ...
Memphasis > I know Bea.
April 11th, 2013
REMARKABLE CONNECTIONS. After last week’s column, Bea dropped me a thoughtful email note as she often does about whatever I’m writing about. My story about Linda Courtney and her son Bill struck a common chord, and Bea wanted to share. Bea is a bit stooped these days and needs a walker to get around, but, if you know her, you know that no one stands taller on ...
Memphasis > Single-handed
April 4th, 2013
SINGULAR PERFORMANCE. The White Station Class of 1966, the year ahead of mine, had two Academy Award winners – one you’ve heard of and one you haven’t. That was some class. Physicist, gray matter repository and best-selling author, Alan Lightman, was in it. Federal judge and arbiter of public education’s future in Shelby County, Hardy Mays, was in ...
Memphasis > The Means To Be Mean
March 28th, 2013
PIECE OF CAKE. Lately, and this is disturbing, I’ve been thinking about Sen. Brian Kelsey (R-Germantown) as Marie Antoinette, complete with a powdered wig and a cute little stick-on beauty mark, running up and down the halls inviting the poor to eat cake when they run out of bread. But these are not the halls of her Petit Trianon in Versailles at the time of the ...
Memphasis > The Duck, the Dog, and the Farm
March 21st, 2013
GOING TO LIVE IN THE COUNTRY. My column last week prompted a number of you to share your memories of the creatures that came home with you from the cages at Katz Drug Store. My friend Bill Haltom, attorney and storyteller, sent me this: “For Easter one year, Mom and Dad took me to Katz and bought me two ducks and a chicken. The chicken didn’t last a week. In ...
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