Sunday Breakfast

Chalet’s Cachet Continues To Grow

by Bill McLean • May 22, 2020
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Lawson Thalmann’s dream to play in the NBA dribbled out of bounds halfway through his basketball career at Loyola Academy. But not because he had lost the drive to shoot…
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Comfort Sown

by Bill McLean • April 24, 2020
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The basketball point guard/volleyball setter in Nicole “Nikki” Fernandez continues to pace and galvanize others, decades after she “quarterbacked” teams of hoopsters and spikers at St. Francis Academy in Pittsburgh….
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Fear Not

by Bill McLean • April 17, 2020
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Good thing Alex Rodriguez—the former Wauconda High School shortstop, not the former Major League Baseball shortstop—wasn’t a shy guy in high school. His outgoing personality forced his chemistry teacher to…
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Combo of Fun and Learning Brightens Gray’s Days …

by Bill McLean • April 10, 2020
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If anybody could pull off hosting a pizza party for children and turning it into a fun, impromptu geometry lesson—pizza slices are yummy triangles, right?—it would be Erika Gray. The…
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Sunday Breakfast: Dr. Jeremy Warner

by Monica Kass Rogers • January 16, 2020
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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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Sunday Breakfast: Susan Kelsey

by Bill McLean • January 9, 2020
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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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Sunday Breakfast: Emilia Barrosse

by Debbie Lee • January 2, 2020
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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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Sunday Breakfast: Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg

by Monica Kass Rogers • December 21, 2019
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Rabbi Jacob Rosenberg is used to it. Strangers meeting him for the first time hear his title, see his bright, bearded face, and the yarmulke perched on the back of…
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Sunday Breakfast: Don Meyer

by Bill McLean • December 12, 2019
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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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Sunday Breakfast: Devon Bruce

by Bill McLean • December 5, 2019
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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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