After getting laid off in 2001, Michal Ketner moved from Leland, N.C., to Richmond, likening her journey to that of an immigrant seeking a better life. Currently doing administrative work […]
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Jen Johnson grew up in Newton, N.C. She moved to Richmond in 2002 to attend Virginia Commonwealth University, earning a bachelor's degree in English with a minor in women's studies. […]
Leah gathered her heavy black hair behind her light brown neck, twisted it and placed it against the back of her head. She was staring out their bedroom window at […]
While we had to choose four winners, there were so many little moments of brilliance throughout all the stories that we had to pull out some of the best and give them their own special awards.
The outside didn't look impressive — a run-down bungalow with shingles falling off and cobwebs as thick as skin. Nathan's father showed him how to get here; even 30 years […]
Originally from Kettering, Ohio, Marie Potoczny received her undergraduate degree in interdisciplinary studies from Ohio's Miami University. In 2003 she moved with her husband from North Carolina to Richmond's Byrd […]
Scott McLaughlin, former director of marketing for the Greater Richmond Chamber of Commerce, is now a freelance marketing director. He was having coffee near Virginia Commonwealth University when he spotted […]
Descending the elevator of the collective unconscious, eventually you get to the bottom floor, where humankind's deepest impulses hang out. Three themes came up so many times, they win a […]
Catherine Baab works as an advertising copywriter and contributes to Style Weekly and its magazine for Richmond women, Belle. In 2007, she completed a master's degree in creative writing at […]
When Jim Noonan asked his friend Charlotte about her first memory, she said it was of taking a trip to Charlottesville and saying, “I'm not a ville!” Noonan, 50, guesses […]
In the back of dad's blue Chevy on the way to Charlottesville. Me cracking my knee on tent poles jammed in the seat between us. You lunching on sandwiches, your […]
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