On The Page, On Stage
Byline: Lauren Hopkins Karcz I found my identity in a college library one summer morning. I had just turned seventeen, and was sweating it out at an honors program in south Georgia, making generous...
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Jackie was raised in South Africa and Holland and settled in Toronto with her family after high school. After graduating from Ontario College of Art and Design, she started making her colourful...
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Byline: Stacy Appel They say winning isn’t everything, but standing here before you tonight, gazing out into a sea of rapt friends, admirers, co-workers, a couple of neighbors (hey, Wilson family!)...
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Byline: Dawn Downey “Get her some flowers for Mother’s Day. Purple iris.” Wendy called out a final instruction from her front porch. She was a psychic. She read Tarot cards, threw the I Ching and...
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Byline: Carolyn Dow My father and I were on a rare visit to see his Aunt Jesse, who still lived in his childhood home on the eastern border of New York. It was 1944, and I was six years old. Just as...
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Byline: Stephanie Hunt On a late September evening of my junior year, I was walking back from my shift taking phone orders at Pizza Devil, the campus pizza delivery service, and ran into my friend...
View ArticleThe Serendipity Issue - October 2013
Publication Date: 2013-10Byline: Nikki Hardin, Publisher In 1985, I was down on my luck and backed into a tight corner. A relationship of seven years had ended with a thud in a cliché. My big job in...
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