Finding the right person is a lot of work, Bela Gandhi often says to her clients in her business, Smart Dating Academy. But, oddly enough, her own love story came about easily and naturally. Bela met her husband, Andy, at Glenbrook South High School. They became friends and even counseled each other on their respective […]
When Ned kissed Debby for the first time, she promptly turned around and walked into a door. It was 1952, and Debby was at Princeton visiting her brother and touring colleges. Ned, a senior and football player, had agreed to be Debby’s escort after the football game. “I thought she was cute then,” Ned says. […]
Russian born Dania Kaseeva Maas was not destined to marry the boy next door. A second generation circus performer, Dania had made her way to the U.S. and was performing her award-winning hula-hoop act with The Big Apple Circus in 1991 when a singing ringmaster, David Maas, captured her attention. In her strong Russian accent […]
It’s a new year, and it’s time for your charitable cause to get a new look. North Shore-based Get Dwell not only provides award-winning handyman, maintenance and repair services for homeowners (readers selected Get Dwell as Best Handyman of 2011 for our Best of 2011 issue), but its team is also heavily involved in charitable […]
“Our love story is ongoing,” Kerry Wood declares with an appreciative glance at his wife, Sarah, seated next to him.
Domestic violence is too often a secret, dark side of marriage—even in affluent communities like ours.
Glenbrook South student Maddy Halamaj loves sports. But for Maddy and her friends with special needs, school and club teams, with their intense competition and physical play, are not a good fit. Years ago, Dan Sabol and David Palmer found their kids facing the same predicament. Discouraged at the lack of options for sports-loving special […]
Once every three years, the Lyric Opera of Chicago presents its Wine Auction, a highly anticipated event for lovers of fine wine and luxury living. The 10th triennial auction event, chaired by our very own Susan Blankenbaker Noyes, founder of Make It Better Media, will be held on Friday, February 10th and will feature wine […]
When Casey and Jackie Magner’s son John was a toddler, they discovered he had cystic fibrosis. This life-threatening genetic disease causes mucus to build up and clog some of the organs in the body, particularly the lungs and pancreas. The Winnetka family immediately tested their three other children, and discovered that their youngest, Matthew, also […]
You may no longer need that pair of sneakers that you only wore a couple of times, but chances are, someone else in the world does. When Mona Purdy traveled to Central America in 1999, she was appalled when she saw that village children were at risk for infections leading to amputation simply because they […]
