Calkins: Remember the winter storm of 2026? It inspired a dog (and cat) story to warm your heart.
When a winter storm closed the Bartlett Animal Shelter earlier this year, locals stepped out to foster every animal in the shelter. (Courtesy Bartlett Animal Shelter)
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Geoff Calkins has been chronicling Memphis and Memphis sports for more than two decades. Calkins has been named the best sports columnist in the country five times by the Associated Press sports editors, but still figures his best columns are about the people who make Memphis what it is.
It was the eyes that did it.
“Periwinkle had the saddest eyes,” Joy Wilson said.
Periwinkle is a dog.
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