“I may be an old nun, but I know my hoops.” Sister Jean Dolores Schmidt’s electrifying modesty is best summed up in that quote from her new book, Wake Up with Purpose! What I’ve Learned in My First Hundred Years. It’s an energy that captured the nation’s heart during Loyola’s improbable March Madness run in […]
On the surface, life can look picturesque for the residents of an advantaged suburb like Winnetka. But looks, of course, can be deceiving. That goes double for Norman Zimmerman, a longtime Winnetkan whose secret double life is the subject of a book, “Suburban Bigamy: Six Miles Between Truth and Deceit,” written by one of its […]
How reliable is our memory? When we examine the past now, what do we see? Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai tackles these questions in her latest novel, I Have Some Questions For You — available February 21, 2023, published by Viking Penguin. At its core, the story is about revisiting the past to distinguish truth over […]
How reliable is our memory? When we examine the past now, what do we see? Bestselling author Rebecca Makkai tackles these questions in her latest novel, I Have Some Questions For You — available February 21, 2023, published by Viking Penguin. At its core, the story is about revisiting the past to distinguish truth over […]
What’s the secret to living a happy and fulfilling life? The answer to this question is something Dr. Robert Waldinger and Dr. Marc Schulz have strived to answer through years of research. The two men are directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal biopsychosocial study of human development that started tracking […]
What’s the secret to living a happy and fulfilling life? The answer to this question is something Dr. Robert Waldinger and Dr. Marc Schulz have strived to answer through years of research. The two men are directors of the Harvard Study of Adult Development, the longest longitudinal biopsychosocial study of human development that started tracking […]
Each August, Mary DiSomma breaks out her KitchenAid and starts baking cookies for the holiday season. She needs a long runway to make a whopping 7,000 cookies—50 varieties in all—that she and her husband will put in tins and hand out as gifts to eagerly awaiting family and friends come December. DiSomma’s cookie making has […]
No one should have to endure what Nancy Rothstein and her family did — the death of a beloved child. But, every person who does can find comfort, inspiration and courage in her story. Rothstein’s vibrantly alive, 15 ½-year-old son Josh — then a sophomore at Lake Forest Academy in Chicago’s bucolic North Shore — was on a […]
The most wonderful time of the year is a lot more enjoyable when you don’t have to stress about holiday shopping. Luckily, if you have a Disneyphile on your list, we’re here to make it as easy as saying “Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!” From home to tech and toys to books, here are the best Disney, Star Wars, […]
The most wonderful time of the year is a lot more enjoyable when you don’t have to stress about holiday shopping. Luckily, if you have a Disneyphile on your list, we’re here to make it as easy as saying “Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!” From home to tech and toys to books, here are the best Disney, Star Wars, […]
