Thomas Connors

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As any harried parent will tell you, children don’t come with an operating manual. While some parents may wish to raise their children the way they were raised, others opt for a different approach altogether. And of course, neither path may appeal to the child. Instituting discipline while encouraging personal freedom isn’t easy. This is

TRAVELING HOPEFULLY

Art isn’t always easy on the eyes. From Wassily Kandinsky to Willem de Kooning, Anselm Kiefer to Jean-Michel Basquiat, painters have long challenged the concept of a “proper” picture. Tweaking form and content, they’ve expanded our visual reality, opening our eyes to new ways of seeing. Casual museum or gallery-goers often dismiss seemingly extreme works

RE-THINKING THE ROAD TO WELLNESS

Robotic surgery. Genome editing. Cell therapy. These are just a few of the milestones that have reshaped modern medicine in recent years. But not every innovation springs from a lab. And not every road to wellness begins with a prescription pad. Functional Medicine, a patient-based, individualized approach to ascertaining the root cause of disease, is

ALL OF A PIECE

There’s real joy in a beautifully balanced room, a sense-pleasing satisfaction in a space composed, yet far from constrained. Hitting that sweet spot is no minor achievement. And when a designer brings it all together, you could hardly ask for anything more. Case in point: this utterly perfect Winnetka residence fashioned by New York interior

NATURAL GROWTH

Change can come slowly or suddenly. It can be random or planned. It can be minute or monumental. But when it makes us feel better or more fulfilled, there’s nothing quite like it. Leah Bostrom was staying home with her kids in Wilmette when “as a mom of young kids with food allergies, I was

HOMEWORTHY

Success—and the contentment that can come from it—are often hard-won. So, it sure helps to have a great start right out of the gate, long before putting your nose to the grindstone. “Our home was a sanctuary of art, music, and intellectual curiosity,” shares Annie Rogers, recalling her Michigan childhood. “A grand piano dominated the

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