Echols: The simple but deep pleasures of mahjong and pickleball
Budding pickleball players attend a class at Christ Church Memphis. (Brad Vest/The Daily Memphian file)
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.”
“Why has the American adult world gone so nuts over these two fresh pastimes?”
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