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It happened for years. Home cook and mother of three Karen Nochimowski would whip up a dinner for family and friends only to be pinged the next day with multiple requests for the recipe. Nochimowski was happy to comply. But the response to her Honey Curry Chicken, (chicken thighs baked with honey, mustard, and curry

Have you ever met someone who just knew they were born to leave the world a better place than they found it? Chicago native and Grammy Award-winning drummer, composer, best-selling author, inventor-turned-entrepreneur, and educator Prescott Ellison is just such a person. “I hope you don’t take this the wrong way,” Ellison says. “But I’ve always

Lacrosse, fencing, crew. All fine sports. But for most fans, they don’t hold a candle to baseball, football, and basketball. Yet, in what you could only call a counterintuitive move, another elite athletic recreation—squash—was envisioned as a portal to empower young people back in 1996, by Williams College and Harvard graduate, Greg Zaff. A former

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