Echols: What to do about the election
“Seventy-two hours from now, everybody will be in the same boat: The votes will have been cast, and once the votes have been counted, we’ll all know who won. And ... we will all know who lost.”
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.”
There are 121 articles by Candace Echols :
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November 2024
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Guest Columnists
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October 2024
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Guest Columnists Echols: When you don’t know whether or not to stay in Memphis
“What happens in a Memphis marriage if one spouse is committed to staying in this city, but the other spouse is worn out by all that has happened and all they want to do is go?”
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Guest Columnists Echols: The simple but deep pleasures of mahjong and pickleball
“Why has the American adult world gone so nuts over these two fresh pastimes?”
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Guest Columnists Echols: Visiting the Biltmore — before Hurricane Helene
“As utterly wonderful as a place may be, it really is the people who are the heartbeat behind it.” Now the North Carolina mansion is closed indefinitely.
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September 2024
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Guest Columnists Echols: Derrick Rose, Von Trapp skaters, and one too many lizards
“Thirty-nine of my 46 years have been spent in Memphis. But this week, I have seen five things in Memphis that are all fairly new to me.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: Who are we without wonder?
“We don’t ask to be born and are given absolutely no say in the matter. We don’t get to choose our era, our families, our location of birth. One day, we’re just aware that we are and it takes effort to believe that all of human life and existence didn’t start the very same moment I did.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: Memphis ‘has the capacity to be marked by peace’
“We have the capacity to be good neighbors to one another again, even as we continue to work through our collective crime-related trauma and the unpredictable triggers it ushers it to the surface.”
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Arts & Culture To refugee children, ‘You are brave and loved’
The artist who wrote and illustrated the children’s book “Marisol’s Dress” said she hopes the it will help refugee children understand that while their paths have been fraught with difficulty, hope is within reach.
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August 2024
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Guest Columnists Echols: Candace asks readers to share their stories
“Paying attention to the world around you and then flapping your lips about it ... starts to feel decidedly one-sided after a while, a bit like talking to yourself out loud for the whole city to hear.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘The tapestry of cultures’ in Memphis
“Memphis is a fascinating tapestry of subcultures that I suspect is far more complex and nuanced than most of us would ever dream. This is both our bane and our beauty.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘A wrinkle in time’
“This parenting journey from crib-to-college goes bizarrely fast. As a mother, I can almost feel as if I’ve been cheated out of something. Mocked. Duped. Ripped off.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘Outposts are merely pit stops’
“I have forgotten that outposts are just that – outposts. Outposts offer a roof and a bed and company to the wayfaring stranger, but they are never the final destination.”
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July 2024
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘What if just behind the mundane is a marvelous mystery?’
“Lately, I’ve been treading in the waters of the mundane. Groceries, laundry, text messages that require responses. Neither a cup of coffee nor the moon have been history lessons that reach backward nor spiritual meditations that reach upward.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Burning Bushes Everywhere’
“For several years, I’ve been struggling to pray. For one thing, it’s hard not to get distracted. Thoughts fire this way and that, like ricocheting pinballs.”
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June 2024
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Opinion Echols: ‘It’s worth stepping out and responding’
“I know I have inherited much of who I am from my dad, who inherited it from his mom. ... The three of us look at life from the same vantage point.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘I Need to Go Somewhere’
“There’s something about a good long road trip that creates space for your mind to unwind.”
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Opinion Echols: Something in their spirit hints at timelessness
“In a world that worships youthfulness, it seems counterintuitive that these women would be magnets for those who are younger than they are. But I suspect what they are seeking is something I love too.”
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May 2024
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Opinion Echols: ‘You won’t have any cheese powder’
“These are Memphis-only nuances. I never would have noticed them had I not been thinking about writing for fellow Memphians. We all experience these things together as citizens of this particular place.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Trees are remarkable storytellers’
“The trunk that reaches to the heavens is telling my family’s story in real time, and real time is passing much more quickly than anyone ever told me it would.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘Her children arise and call her blessed’
“When I consider my mother’s version of motherhood, ... I think she can count her wins by what she chose not to do.”
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April 2024
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Opinion Echols: ‘Either way, I was a big, fat jerk’
This is an open letter to the woman I had an embarrassingly vigorous yelling match about a parking spot in front of the UPS store on Colonial Road last Tuesday.
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Opinion Echols: ‘Sometimes, being female can be exasperating’
“Then you find yourself legitimately considering letting someone slice open your rear to insert a TicTac made of yams that will get you closer to ‘normal,’ whatever that even means.”
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Opinion Echols: Memories of Marc Gasol and the Core Four bring tears, grief and joy
“We were proud to be Memphians for a great many reasons, but underneath them all was a sense of citywide unity. For once, we were all on the same team.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘the secret of the creatives’
“What started with truth, goodness and beauty has fallen into dissonance. That’s what I hear in the news, gunfire, sirens and gossip. ... I’ve heard the dissonance in the sound of my own complaining voice.”
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Opinion Echols: Stories of hope, joy, learning: Everett beats the odds
“Every year on June 21, my brother Landon Williams sends me some version of the same text message ... ‘Hey Sister! Today is the 6-year anniversary of the day when Everett was supposed to die.’”
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