Opinion: In defense of parents
Guest columnist Daniel Chatham responds to “the festering view that parents aren’t qualified and can’t be trusted to raise their kids, or at least to raise them in the ways of progressive ideology.”
Topic: Dan Conaway
RSSThere are 210 article(s) tagged Dan Conaway:
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April 2022
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March 2022
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Conaway: The United States of Gunnysack and Whatabout
“Both approaches are the desperate acts of people who can’t counter an argument with salient facts or pertinent positions, people reduced to talking points, perhaps, screaming points.”
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February 2022
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Conaway: Hello, it’s ... who?
“I used to think that everyone past a certain age — maybe 15 — should be required to wear a name tag, introduce themselves when they see you including maiden names and nicknames, and be arrested for stealth name calling if they sneak up on you.”
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Conaway: Stormy weather, thousands of miles away, but never far from home
After a harrowing flight to Minnesota, a young adman learns three important lessons, one of which is you’re never very far from Memphis.
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Conaway: A COVID trip with an old friend
“Pete Bale called. Out of the blue. Probably a decade since we talked. It took about 10 seconds before we were laughing, since we remembered the sound of that, of each other.”
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January 2022
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Conaway: A cold death in a warm city
“We failed Eric Dale Martin, we lost some of ourselves on that sidewalk, and we must mourn the loss,” says Dan Conaway.
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Conaway: I don’t like her much, but she’s still my big sister
“My Tennessee sister Nashville is becoming a Disney World of cities, the reality of it is the fantasy, the place of it is the imitation.”
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Conaway: Tell everybody about John Vergos’ world-class idea
Three years ago, John Vergos had a straight-up world-class idea. He thought Memphis was worthy of a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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December 2021
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Conaway: A lot to ask of a cake
“It tastes like the year we got married. Like our first apartment. Our first house. It tastes like becoming parents. Like promotions. Like graduations. It tastes like celebration, and like eating half of it on the way home from the bakery with your fingers.”
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Conaway: Christmas time, different and the same every time
“Whatever your faith, whether you believe this is a time of anticipation and arrival, or of reflection or celebration, or of renewal or recognition — or all of those — I believe it’s a time to look inside to places only you can visit, to look at the paths traveled and at those who’ve shared the journey then and now, and to know, truly know, you are not alone.”
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Conaway: Bundle up and head down to the river
From the Big River Crossing one can stand above the middle of the churn of this nation’s main artery like nowhere else, for a view of the city like none other.
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Conaway: Mad to sad, rage to resignation, warning to worrying
“There is a vaccine for COVID. There is none for what’s wrong with us.”
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November 2021
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Conaway: Look for the wonder. Repeat.
Gathered again for Thanksgiving, this time with four generations, I’m again reminded of, well, of everything. Most of all, I’m reminded of loss and of renewal, and I’m still surprised at the wonder of it.
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Conaway: Southern river towns — dark waters, new currents
‘People in river towns understand better than most that nothing good happens when the flow stops, worse still, if it flows backwards.’
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Conaway: The boys are back in the clubhouse, and they’re killing us
‘What they’re proposing and passing this time will kill people. Now and in the future. Men, women, and children will needlessly die at the hands of the super majority of the Tennessee General Assembly.’
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October 2021
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Conaway: There is (was) space for hope at the zoo
The hint of political pressure and/or lack of political will hangs over North Parkway at McLean like the smell of elephant and donkey dung on a hot summer day.
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Conaway: In Memphis, there’s just something in the water
Every year, Americans are swallowing about 45 gallons of water per capita from either plastic or glass bottles. That means folks around here, people literally sitting on top of famed Memphis water, are getting soaked.
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Conaway: Data-driven benefits — for all — by the truckload
The new manufacturing site is named Blue Oval City after the iconic Ford logo and it will be three times larger than their current flagship Ford Rouge Factory in Dearborn, Michigan.
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Conaway: ‘You’re wrong about that’
When the truth is being denied, when we are increasingly threatened by that denial, we as a society, we as responsible human beings, must stand for truth against any who knowingly trade falsehood for power.
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September 2021
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Conaway: Battle of the terrible twos – the next generation
Nora and I are no longer capable of the chase. And the chase is constant enough that the father no longer coaches the older kids but has returned to the sidelines to help the mother wrangle the 2-year-old.
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Conaway: The Tasteful List 2021
Memphis is blessed by its food, the abundance of creativity, diversity and tradition mixed in the same bowls, seasoned with love, soul, and imagination – and still made and served by amazing people with a smile in these, their most trying of times.
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Conaway: Going right back out there anyway
What are the odds that many birds could hit my car all at once while I was going down Walnut Grove? Precision daylight bombing.
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Conaway: People taught, people touched, people who will remember
If you have friends like that, you’re fortunate. If you have friends like that, especially in the time we’ve lived through and the people we’ve lost, let them know what they mean to you.
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August 2021
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Conaway: Looking back, moving forward
A lot of us forget that memory is selective and if we actually could go back to times we fondly remember, we would probably run from the reality we find.
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Conaway: Knowingly exposing children to COVID is not a right, it’s morally wrong
In fact, Governor Lee’s stupidity could quite literally take your breath away and the breath of those you love.
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