Sunday Breakfast

No wonder poet/essayist Laura Joyce- Hubbard, who flew unarmed U.S. Air Force C-130s carrying relief cargo during the Bosnia War in the mid-1990s, is the City of Highland Park’s first Poet Laureate. Even snippets of passages in her essays could pass for stirring stanzas. To wit: “Rich jade mountains unrolled beneath our flight path,” she

As a tot growing up in Highland Park, Colleen Boilini skipped the middle stage of the crawl-walk-run continuum. “My mom (Paula) told me I ran before I attempted to walk when I was nine months old,” says Boilini, now 40 years old and the assistant athletic director at her alma mater, Highland Park High School

Cobwebs must have blanketed Christie Jordan’s tennis racket when she decided to free the stick from its gauzy prison four years ago. The North Shore resident and founder of Source Healing—an inspired, holistic wellness clinic that recently opened a third location in Lake Forest—hadn’t wielded the racket since her senior year in high school. “I

As owner of the nascent Ravinia Bridal—a curated sample boutique in the Ravinia district of Highland Park—nothing thrills Highland Park native Bonnie Wegner more than guiding a future bride to the dream gown. But Wegner knows there’s a bigger picture, so she zooms out with a warm reminder for each client. “I tell them, ‘The

Longtime Highwood resident Ermanno Amidei’s alarm clock blares at 1:59 a.m., every morning. Not at 1:45 a.m. Not at 2 a.m. At 1:59, exactly. It’s how Mr. Amidei rolls, as the kids say these days. And it’s when he rolls out of bed. He’s not that shuffling, bleary-eyed man who grumbled, “Time to make the

On the day of her first Irish dance lesson in a basement at a Chicago church 37 years ago, a 9-year-old from Evanston named Michaela was ordered to go to a corner in the room. But not because she had gotten into trouble. “I was old for a beginner,” recalls Michaela McGarry Donohue, now a