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Hearts & Horses

Carl Tommaso is riding hard. Boots in the stirrups and right arm up high, he whirls a lasso overhead, ready to rope a steer. Interventional cardiologist by day and cowboy in the margins, Barrington Hills’ Tommaso has been riding horses and roping steers in the competitive sport of team roping for more than 25 years.

Positive Outcomes

It’s a busy morning at the Colbert family’s Hinsdale household. Ten-year-old Nina scampers down the stairs with Gavin, 7, close behind, eager to show off the new toy top he sets spinning across the kitchen counter. Dylan, 15, comes next, heading to the back door where the family’s 10-month-old English bulldog Biggie is barking his

Soul Harbour Ranch

With a combination of grit and determination, a little bit of luck and a lot of love, Jodie Diegel, founder of Soul Harbour Ranch Therapy Program, is literally living her dream life. She has created an organization that uses therapy dogs, miniature therapy horses and miniature therapy donkeys to share a lot of SOUL

Empowering Purpose

In Ashley Logan’s world, everything is moving at warp speed. Founder and CEO of Yakkety Yak, a Chicago-based marketing agency, she knows that words have power. That every story is worth telling. And yet, as a Hinsdale mother of three very young children (including baby Samuel, born during a global pandemic) she is constantly grasping

Light Up the Night

Life during a pandemic doesn’t have many benefits, but there are a few. If you’re one of those people who actually enjoyed staying local and low-key in your jammies over the holidays, you might love what the Clarendon Hills Chapter of the Infant Welfare Society (IWS) has in mind for its January 23 gala. Like

Dressed Up

Before the advent of social media and online shopping, Christy Vegosen opened a brickand- mortar women’s fashion boutique called Tickled Pink at Plaza del Lago in Wilmette. She’d dreamt of working in fashion—and even interned at luxury retailer Neiman Marcus— but the retail climate shifted quickly and she realized a change of pace was necessary.

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