A Woman for All Seasons (440)
Kathy Dietz must have played hide-and-seek as a child. Every child did, right? But she also was asked to seek things for her mother, Dorothy, when Dorothy wanted to enhance…
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Sunday Breakfast
‘Sunday’ Best
We ate and talked. We laughed and listened and cried. And I — one grateful journalist — learned all about fascinating people with ties to the North Shore. Here are…
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Ford Blooming, Stigma Wilting
The eight floral arrangements on the Ford family’s kitchen island in Lake Forest make Tom Ford stop on an August morning in 2017. The beauty had stunned Katie Ford’s husband….
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‘Channel’-ing Her Endurance
Marcia Cleveland’s parents, Bob and Carolyn, had a watertight reason for teaching a nearly 2-year-old Marcia how to swim. They got tired of retrieving their curious, fearless tot at the…
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Coach has a BH factor
Brad Hokin was a junior safety/running back/punt and kick returner on the varsity football team at Highland Park High School in 1980. Only two seasons earlier, he weighed a little…
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Doug Roth 2.0 Rates a 10
Third-generation restaurateur Doug Roth has a college-aged stepdaughter named Hunter. But he has never been a fan of the word “stepdaughter.” “I call her my bonus daughter or daughter 2.0,”…
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Cooking Maven Owns Recipe for Vibrant Writing
Mary Jo McMillin knew she wanted to work in a commercial kitchen. She wrote letters to professionals in the industry, hoping the words would sing her passion for cooking and…
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Straight —and fun — talk with Bent Fork …
Bakers Liz and Michael Bearwald got engaged more than 27 years ago. They needed dough. Not the edible kind; the green kind. Currency. So they made lots and lots of…
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First lady of Illinois second to none in child …
A female freshman at Yale University meets a cute guy outside of her dorm. It’s the first week of school. They talk. “Where are you from?” the guy asks the…
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Why? Why? Why?
The boy who grew up in a Highland Park house filled with books everywhere, on every floor, liked to read the sports section in the newspaper every day. A young…
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