Echols: Asking honest questions and listening to each other’s honest answers
Candace Echols
Candace Echols is a Midtown resident, wife, and mother of five. A regular contributor to The Daily Memphian, she is a freelance writer who also recently published her first book, the children’s book “Josephine and the Quarantine.”
“We sometimes talk through the nuances of our mid-life femaleness with a candid honesty that I would call uncommon. ... We share stories about our aunts and mothers, our sisters and grandmothers.”
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