We should resist the urge to wall ourselves off from what’s painful, and instead take improv’s “yes, and” approach, writes Heidi Stevens.
Heidi Stevens: Yes, 2025 is off to a heartbreaking start. And we can help heal it
Category: Parenting and Family
Teens are ‘showing up,’ helping out via growing Palos Leo Club
Teens who started the Palos Leo Club in Palos Heights are disproving the ‘bad rap’ that kids only want to be online.
Flossmoor woman helps fight loneliness by regifting holiday cheer
Flossmoor resident Jennifer Molski is helping stave off loneliness among older people by giving them regifted presents.
Duo from Andrew ‘making history,’ heading to D.C. to advocate for Unified Sports
Two Andrew High School athletes have been invited by Special Olympics to Lobby Day in Washington to promote Unified Sports programs.
Heidi Stevens: His wife told him to jump in the lake. More than 4 years later, he still is. ‘There’s just a lot of joy in jumping in the water’
In the summer of 2020, when a pandemic gripped the globe and civil unrest filled city streets and dread clouded the air like a low-hanging fog, Dan O’Conor would get up every morning, drive to a parking lot at Montrose Beach and stick a hand-scrawled sign inside his windshield: WENT TO JUMP IN THE LAKE. The sign was to keep his car from getting towed. The lake was to keep his sanity. Both …
Making any New Year’s resolutions? Here are some tips to help make them stick
Experts say January can be a good time to reflect on self-improvement, but acknowledge it takes work to make resolutions stick.
Joliet library one of 10 in US to host NASA exoplanet exhibit
The only place in Illinois to see a NASA exhibit on the search for life on alien planets is the Joliet Public Library. And it’s free.
Evergreen Park library offers ‘social network’ for adults with disabilities
With help from an Autism Welcome Here grant, Evergreen Park library establishes a club where adults with disabilities can find community.
Heidi Stevens: Happiness, hope and some hurdles — 24 things from 2024 that I’m carrying into the new year
Here are some of the things from the past year, in no particular order, that I’m taking with me into 2025, writes Heidi Stevens.
Goodbye and good luck to a good boy: As Dexter the dog moves away, his human pals reflect on puppy friendships
We take it for granted, but Dexter is a real part of our lives, Gregory Royal Pratt writes of his dog’s best friend.