Bill McLean

JOHN OF ALL TRADES

Musician, psychotherapist, priest. Lake Forest native John Moulder, 61, is all of the above—the equivalent, career-wise, of either an adept circus performer spinning way too many plates on poles or an ace juggler chucking and catching more than a few clubs. “My three worlds,” says Moulder, who also teaches music in his basement in Skokie

A SPIRITED COLLABORATION

Between the ages of 10 and 18, former Barrington High School soccer star Jenny Solberg often climbed trees in her neighbors’ yards in the fall months and shook, shook, shook the limbs. The center midfielder—now 34-year-old Jenny Solberg Katzman mother of a precious hat trick (Sienna, 4; Wade, 2; and Eva, six months)—had placed a

SHIFTING TO A HIGHER GEAR

John Nichols’ first sprint triathlon in 2005 didn’t go so swimmingly. “Horrible experience,” the Winnetkan recalls. “Rough. I was heavy, grossly out of shape … kind of an idiot. But I wanted to race again. I wanted to train properly for my next race.” Two years later, the former collegiate lacrosse and hockey player entered

Q IS FOR QUEST

Clients at Quest Performance Training (Quest) in Lake Bluff have no choice but to exercise mere seconds after entering the facility. But only if you believe that receiving a high five is a form of exercise. Quest owner Quone “Coach Q” Edmonds delivers the emphatic greeting to one and all. The elevated slap usually triggers

THE THORN WORDS

Independent bookstores were faced with challenges in 2013, with the increased use of Kindle and at the ravenous feet of Amazon. Or so it seemed. Assyrian-American and Lake Bluff resident Eleanor Thorn— the bookkeeper at the Lake Forest Book Store for a year and a half before buying it from Sue Boucher nearly 10 years

’81 SKI-DUDE

Barrington native Mark Zito spent each summer in high school on a boat in Wisconsin. He vacationed and worked in the Badger State, with the boat doubling as his seasonal home. His late father, Jack Zito, had bought a Door County marina in 1968. “I’d return to Barrington, in time for the start of school

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