More in The Yellow Chair ChronEchols By Candace Echols Elizabeth Stone once said, “Making the decision to have a child — it is momentous. It…
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Category: Personal Narratives
Turning down the noise and slowing down time in search of something called wisdom
StoryBoard debuts the Yellow Chair ChronEchols By Candace Echols Sometimes, news images have the odd effect of making me feel young and old at the…
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Seven ways the pandemic has changed me as a parent
By Candace Echols The first-draft title for this piece was going to be “Seven ways the pandemic has changed my parenting.” But if I’m being honest, the…
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In Memoriam, 2020
This retired school teacher reflects on a year of loss, and lessons By Mark Scott It has been a very long and traumatic year. Like…
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“The saddest case I’ve ever run across” – Imprisoned since 2012, Pamela found a reason to live
… there was something about the man’s posture or the way he stood between Pamela and the door that triggered the young woman’s paranoia… A…
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A segregated education in 1950’s Memphis
Adapted from Woodson J. Savage III’s Savage Family Tree, a true story of growing up in a segregated West Tennessee town By Woody J. Savage…
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SB 30 Episode 55: Storytelling as healing, with Elaine Blanchard
“Somehow my performing created this safe place where they could talk and share their stories. . . and the conversations that came from that. .…
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Monologues for Healing, from the Women Who Lived Them
Prison Stories “I ran like she told me to do. A neighbor man grabbed me up and carried me across the street to his porch…
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Behind “Prison Stories”: A Storytelling Program For Healing
A much-needed program, now over, that resonates through today’s Black Lives Matter movement Originally published in the November 2018 print edition of StoryBoard By Elaine…
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