Echols: Punctuation is a short-term superpower
“I typically write about God in this space, and you may think there’s no way on earth to weave God into a conversation about punctuation – but on that matter, Dear Reader, you would be wrong.”
Candace Echols
Candace Echols writes whatever she notices as she goes about her daily life. Living that way has landed her bylines in National Geographic, Garden and Gun, The Gospel Coalition, Southern Living, golf.com, Cowboys and Indians, Common Good, Risen Motherhood, and others. Someday, she hopes to have a writing cottage in Oxford, England or Oxford, Mississippi; either will be just fine. Candace and her husband live with their children in Midtown Memphis.
There are 160 articles by Candace Echols :
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August 2026
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Guest Columnists Echols: Seeing more stars than our eyes could take in
“Awe is evident when your mind has been blown and you are forced to re-think what you knew before.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘What would you say is the peak of your life so far?’
“Is the very nature of a peak that there is only one? Does the length of a life have any correlation with the number of peaks it will have?”
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September 2026
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Opinion Echols: In an era of artificiality, we want the real
“I have never been more aware of my desire for those things that counter the putrid assault of soulless artificiality that daily pursues the lives we inhabit.”
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Opinion Echols: ‘What do you wish other generations knew about your generation?’
“What do you wish other generations better understood about the Silents or the Boomers or X or the Millennials or Z or Alpha?”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘Caring for stuff isn’t how most of us wish to spend our days’
“Is there anything more depressing than a life speckled with unrealized dreams revealed through a stack of unopened gear? My basement is a graveyard of hobbies that never were.”
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October 2026
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘Dear Freshmen: Sorry we didn’t warn you’
“We left out the boredom of Saturday afternoons, the awkwardness of Tuesday lunches and the monotony of late nights in the library. Perhaps we could have fleshed out the hard parts with instead of airbrushing the whole, big thing.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘What we take in, be it book or bite, will inevitably impact how we live.’
“What knowledge is obsolete, what knowledge is rock solid, and who — pray tell — is qualified to make such distinctions?”
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Guest Columnists Echols: ‘Top Five Moments I Was Glad to Be a Memphian’
“For me, a regular mom with nothing to prove, just coming up with Top Five List topics sounded like fun.”
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Guest Columnists Echols: Garage Adidas and the fragrance of Jesus
“I may be on an island with this one, but I would even go so far as to say everybody has their own fragrance. If you stick around someone else’s house long enough, their scent will stay with you for a while.”
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