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The First Big Break
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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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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Tiny Tattoos
Byline: Debra Larson Our first baby was six days old when my husband Andy said, “I have something to tell you.” We were standing at the foot of our bed after I’d just set our sleeping newborn in his...
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Taking The Plunge
Byline: Emily Rogan Jump, Emily, just jump!” My brother Josh and my friends were screaming down below.I stood on a wooden platform, 15 feet above a pond of 38-degree water. I’d already had a taste of...
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Good Bones
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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The Rocker
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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Windfalls
Byline: Stacy Appel A few nights ago I was lucky enough to attend a concert of Persian classical music. Unlike concert-goers at a folk or jazz performance, this audience sat entirely still in the...
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If By Chance
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...
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Grace Notes
Byline: Stacy Appel Few of my Thanksgivings as a grown woman have been spent with immediate family. My parents are long gone and my brother lives in a different part of the country, so over the years...
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Out Of The Box
Byline: Lorrie Goldin My daughter Ally says I’m a hoarder. She may have a point. As I search the cupboards for a spanakopita recipe gone missing, hundreds of loose clippings cascade to the...
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