PHOTOS BY ALICE G. PATTERSON PHOTOGRAPHY If you ask Rob Bick, his late wife, Ann Marie, was practically a superhero. “She had an extraordinary intellect, an extraordinary curiosity, a razor sharp sense of humor and a monumental sense of...
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Causes, Featured, Features
FOR A GOOD CAUSE: Al-Amin Muhammad, We Rise Above the Streets
Photos by Maureen Tricase/Capture Your Moments Photography Tell me about yourself. How did you end up on the streets? I am the son of Haitian immigrants. My parents moved from Haiti and settled in Chicago. They were both very hardworking people and...
Features
INSPIRE: Lisa Alford
By Jessica Collins Lisa Alford’s favorite poem is Max Ehrmann’s “Desiderata.” “Go placidly amid the noise and the haste,” Ehrmann wrote in the 1927 poem, “and remember what peace there may be in silence. As far as possible, without surrender,...
Features, Special Feature
SPECIAL FEATURE: One-of-a-kind David’s Refuge gives parent caretakers a break
By Christine Dunne Photo by Michael Di Giglio David’s Refuge is a one-of-a kind organization, focused on giving parent caretakers a break — typically through a weekend getaway at a local bed and breakfast. “Parents are calling us from...
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SPECIAL FEATURE: Letters to heaven: Fayetteville family finds solace in sending letters to lost loved ones
BY JASON KLAIBER To those who ask the number of children Michelle Wilbur has, she tells them seven. On Aug. 26, 2017 Michelle gave birth prematurely to one-pound fraternal twins. The next day her son Jackson, the younger of...
