Echols: ‘Nothing but a breath between us and the telephone poles’
“An afternoon spent dancing to Pentatonix with my family as we bake cookies with no clock ticking in the background — that’s good Christmas-ing from where I sit,” says Candace Echols. (Mark Weber/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.”
“It wasn’t until I reached adulthood that I realized nothing that can be wrapped will fully satisfy. And if the stuff in the boxes — the stuff I flew up and down Poplar looking so frantically for — won’t satisfy, what will?”
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