Sunday Breakfast: Dr. Jeremy Warner
As a precocious five-year-old in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jeremy Warner wanted to learn to ski. His dad agreed, but on one condition. “I had to put my skis on…
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As a precocious five-year-old in Salt Lake City, Utah, Jeremy Warner wanted to learn to ski. His dad agreed, but on one condition. “I had to put my skis on…
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Susan Kelsey got lost as a youngster. Often. But she loved every second of the feeling that accompanied the condition. A Lake Forest resident since 2006, Kelsey blames riveting books…
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Emilia Barrosse wasn’t meant to follow in her parents’ footsteps. Born in Chicago and raised in Woodland Hills, California by stage performers and television producers, she always had a greater…
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No phone. No computer. Oh, and one more thing, young man: You’re not allowed to speak English, at anytime, for seven months. Matt Ravenscraft faced those daunting challenges in Logrono,…
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Don Meyer’s phone rang. The Lake Forest College music professor was an exhausted, overwhelmed first-year graduate student at the UC Davis, when he picked up the receiver in the Era…
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Uncle Terry would shake hands with a constituent, listen to the constituent, converse with the constituent, listen some more. A minimum wage worker? A millionaire? A mother of four? A…
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Just after his 80th birthday, a very spry Toby Nicholson scrambles up to his attic to fetch the handmade marionettes he now holds in his arms. Sleepy, Doc, Dopey, Bashful—all…
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Nearly two weeks before Veterans Day 2019, former Navy SEAL Michael Martin has songs on his mind. Drawn-out songs. Ditties, too. And all lengths of tunes in between. “They say…
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Ever had the urge to place a bunch of orange traffic cones in a high school hallway and observe your peers’ reactions to them? Suzanne Clores, along with several of…
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Nikki Nocera had just delivered her campaign speech for the office of senior class president at Chaney High School when she had an “uh-oh” moment. Her male opponent at the…
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