A Biltmore Estate tour inspires Memphis opinion writer Candace Echols: 'What knowledge is obsolete, what knowledge is rock solid, and who — pray tell — is qualified to make such distinctions?'

Memphis opinion by Candace Echols: Dear College Freshman, perhaps we could have fleshed out the hard parts with instead of airbrushing the whole, big thing.

Columnist Candace Echols asks if there is 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.

Memphis opinion: In an assembly at St. Mary's Episcopal School, four women, Suri Ghodadra, Pat Brand, Sydney Wagner and Gemma Ferguson share what they wish people of other generations understood about their generation.

Memphis writer Candace Echols shares an opinion that people want real things. Not AI and algorithms. She asks what is real? Is it what you can perceive with your senses? Is it what you feel with your heart?

Memphis opinion by Candace Echol: Do we measure life's peaks by a timeline or by the quality of our days? She cites the writings of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle as well as contemporary Christian author Jen Wilkins.

Memphis opinion: Guest columnist Candace Echols recalls a family trip to Zion National Park in Utah, an International Dark Sky Park where she glamped, stargazed.and experienced awe.

As she sends her son off to college, a mom reflects on how God redeems the particular griefs of parenting that come with the passage of time.

Memphis opinion writer Candace Echols discusses punctuation and says there is only one instance in the Bible where God uses an em dash.

Memphis opinion/editorial: Candace Echols prefers the sound of the ocean waves to music from speakers like Turtlebox, a rugged Bluetooth speaker built specifically to cut through loud outdoor environments.

Candace Echols' reasons Memphis is amazing: The Peabody ducks, Overton Park Shell, Elvis Presley's Graceland, the National Civil Rights Museum, the Pink Palace, Memphis Zoo and Volney the lion who roared for MGM.

Opinion by guest columnist Candace Echols wonders if the green-thumbed Memphians who came before us and planted the trees we now enjoy ... cared about us ... by tending our shared soil a century ago.

Candace Echols contributes this article for The Daily Memphian about Instagram account @thisplaceinhistory. It features Tudor, colonial revival, French eclectic, neoclassical and more styles of architecture.

Opinion by Candace Echols: 'I did not set out to pin down the makings of a man worth his salt, but recently I’ve come across some men in Memphis who represent manhood done well.' Among them: Jaylen Wells.

Candace Echols, opinion: When master violinist and Grizz Den podcaster Will Walker stands where his heart and his song and his community and his God meet, he worships and invites the rest of us to do the same.

Candace Echols is a contributor to The Daily Memphian who lives in Midtown Memphis and writes opinion pieces from a Christian perspective. She writes this piece: Will we recognize each other in Heaven?

Candace Echols, who is a contributor who lives in Midtown Memphis, writes this opinion piece article for The Daily Memphian from a Christian perspective. It's titled: "We have dulled our own human-ness."

Memphis opinion for Easter by Candace Echols: On Good Friday, we look back and remember Jesus being broken on the cross because of the ways we chose to shatter things.

Candace Echols is a regular contributor to The Daily Memphian. She lives in Midtown Memphis. She writes her articles from a Christian perspective. She writes this one about heaven as Easter approaches.

Candace Echols: 'Not understanding each other' is hardly limited to different languages. Echols is a contributor to The Daily Memphian that writes from a Christian perspective. She lives in Memphis.