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Category: Yellow Chair ChronEchols

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Flowers and Writing: A Paperback Reflection

Candace Echols October 25, 2022 No Comments Writing

This article originally appeared in Volume I, Issue III of StoryBoard Memphis Quarterly in July 2022. Authors of books get all the glory. I understand why. There’s…

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Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

The Women in My Life

Candace Echols July 18, 2022 No Comments Women

I have four daughters. I wish I could say that we chose their names for deep, meaningful reasons like word origin or family history. Nope.…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Becoming a Writer: Anyone Can Reclaim that Bit of Childhood

Candace Echols May 5, 2022 No Comments

Anyone can be a writer. Really. We are all writing stories in our heads everyday anyway. All you must do to be a writer is…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Grizzlies Playoffs: Sehnsucht, or Joy that Feels Like Longing

Candace Echols April 25, 2022 No Comments Memphis Grizzlies

Germans have a word for those brief moments that prompt indescribable longing: Sehnsucht. Creatives point to music, art, and beauty as the spaces in which…

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Featured Story Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Sweet to Cut the Salt around the Family Table

Candace Echols April 21, 2022 No Comments

The family table has been lauded for years as a solid place to start when it comes to raising kids. Apparently, children who regularly eat…

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Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Easter: A Net with Weaving That Holds

Candace Echols April 14, 2022 1 Comment ChristianityEaster

I started writing this piece on Monday—the day it was due. I wrote one paragraph when the news of a death in our community came…

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Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Finite Bits of Beauty

Candace Echols April 6, 2022 No Comments

Sometimes, I am tempted to stop a stranger in the grocery store, look them deep in the eye, and beg for an answer: “Why must…

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Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

Grandparents and Wisdom

Candace Echols March 24, 2022 No Comments

I am a 43-year-old woman, and all four of my grandparents came to my daughter’s birthday party three weeks ago. Simply based the numbers, that…

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The Joy of Finding Home Folks Away from Memphis

Candace Echols March 17, 2022 No Comments

“Sorry, y’all.” Six other people were already on the gondola, but the worker in charge of moving the line along insisted I join them. I…

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Personal Narrative Yellow Chair ChronEchols

How Alex Lomax Made Me Cry

Candace Echols March 9, 2022 No Comments Memphis Tigers

In case you’re not aware, looking up with your eyeballs helps to drain tears just before they fall. Nobody will ever even know they were…

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