Her Pin-erary For Success
For a first date on the 4th of July in Colorado years ago, Annie Pezza watched fireworks from a spot on the roof of a parking garage. Sparks must have…
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Sunday Breakfast
The Bold And The Dutiful
Katie Brickman has never sold ice to Eskimos, but she did sell leaves on autumn days to Winnetka neighbors with leaf-strewn lawns decades ago. True story. She was Katie Powell…
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Pianist Hands Chamber Keys To Son
Some children nestle all snug in their beds while visions of sugarplums dance in their heads. A young Steven Honigberg envisioned nothing of the sort while growing up in Highland…
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Redoubtable Thomas
Lindsay Thomas, nee Loekle, earned her wings in high school without spending a minute in flight school. Maybe you’re thinking right about now, I’ll fly to any destination in the…
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Integrative Approach
A couple of months before she’d become an official University of Wisconsin Badger in Madison, Ann Vertovec traveled to Battle Ground, Indiana, to study wolves and serve as a volunteer…
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Curious John
The 2010 Haiti earthquake stirred an eighth-grade student at The Country School in Easton, Maryland. The devastation—about 220,000 people were reportedly killed, following a 7.0 magnitude temblor—gave her about 220,000…
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Transition Game
At the age of 12, Will Nowesnick fell in love with lacrosse when his heart resembled a slew of disconnected jigsaw puzzle pieces. His father, Greg, a whip-smart architect with…
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Tour Guide De Force
Remember pay phones? Bruce “Buzzy” Bertucci, 74, certainly does, and one of his favorite Highwood stories features the one that stood across the street from the restaurant Sandy’s, a man…
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