Bill McLean

A professional baseball scout arrives at a high school game and focuses his attention on the home team’s star pitcher but becomes smitten with the shortstop instead. Jason Cannon, a native of Visalia, California, experienced a similar shift in the literary field as he researched Orval Overall, a Visalia High School graduate who helped the

As a New Trier Township High School (NTHS) freshman in 1979, Stephanie Nykaza, nee Allans, made the junior varsity girls’ tennis team. That was no small feat in sneakers. A JV netter at NTHS—packed perennially with ace players, then and now—could rout varsity members of tennis teams at most other schools. “I liked tennis,” Nykaza,

Virtually every day from July 2021 to July 2022, Lake Bluff author/speaker/possibility thinker Kathryn Haydon visited an outdoor house of worship. Her sandy pew was a spot on the edge of Lake Michigan. This vast body of water served as the daily, delightfully changeable celebrant—minus the vestments. “We who sit, a soundless congregation; the lake,

Veronica Hunt’s Compassion Tour—otherwise known as a successful career in the legalized cannabis industry—resumed last November with the opening of Green Rose, a recreational cannabis dispensary in Chicago. The Lake Forest resident had co-owned elevele, a medical cannabis dispensary in Highland Park, from 2016 to 2020 with her husband, Andy Hunt. Older friends were struggling