Nikoleta Curcin
Meet Nikoleta Curcin - Café Depresso’s très educated staff writer, researcher, full-time philosopher, overthinker, and occasional ADHD-fueled poet on a mission to make sense of the chaos.
She’s studied the system, survived it, and now she’s rewriting it, one brutally honest sentence at a time.
Nikoleta’s lived through enough plot twists to know that rock bottom has great acoustics. Instead of staying there, she turned the echoes into essays that land somewhere between heartbreak and enlightenment.
Her writing explores the strange sweetness of survival, the humour hiding inside heartbreak, and the quiet art of rebuilding your life with shaky hands and unshakable spirit. Her column is for anyone who’s ever stared at the ceiling at 3 a.m. and thought, “There
has to be more than this.”
Spoiler: there is, and she’s writing about it. This isn’t self-help. It’s self-confrontation with coffee, courage, and a wicked sense of humour. Her first column appears Thursday, December 4th, 2025.
Christine Rivard
Meet Christine, originally from Chalk River, Ontario of all places, and Café Depresso’s fearless Street Beat Correspondent. She’s the woman who’ll stop you mid-latte to ask about the time life knocked you flat and how you got back up.
Christine’s here for stories that shake, stir, and rebuild the human spirit: the moment you realized you were stronger than you thought, how you bounced back after loss, what keeps you going on bad days, the strangest place you found hope, or the best advice heartbreak ever gave you.
A self-proclaimed professional geek and banker by trade, she knows her way around both balance sheets and broken hearts, proving that financial literacy might just be an underrated form of resilience.
Audaciously creative, delightfully anxious, and endlessly self-aware, Christine barrels into life curious, caffeinated, and armed with empathy sharper than a barista’s wit. She reminds us that resilience isn’t about being unbreakable, it’s about breaking beautifully and rebuilding anyway. Fearless, funny, and heartbreak honest, Christine turns every street corner into a confessional, one story at a time.
