Rats scurried in broad daylight outside Insomnia Cookies in downtown Evanston. At night, the long-tailed rodents leapt out of trash cans. And around the clock, they forced nearby businesses to wage a “losing battle” to keep them away, store operations manager Laura Dundas said in early March. She...
When Anne Lamott was 37 and was trying on clothes with her best friend, Lamott asked the friend if her dress made her hips look too big. “Annie, you don’t have that kind of time,” Lamott’s friend said. The friend, who had breast cancer at the time, passed away six weeks later. Lamott said those words changed her life forever and taught her to stop resisting love. Lamott, whose latest book “Somehow: Thoughts on Love” was released earlier this month, spoke at Loyola Academy’s McGrath Family Performing Arts Center in Wilmette Tuesday evening. The conversation was organized by the nonprofit Family Action Network and facilitated by Heidi Stevens, the director of external...
