by Jeannie Ralston | Mar 24, 2021
You know how you sometimes ask a doctor friend about the weird pain your shoulder, or a lawyer friend for her thoughts on taking your landlord to court over a broken window. Well, Celeste Lee and Lorrie King were often getting hit up for professional advice like that....
by Jeannie Ralston | Mar 21, 2021
Editor’s note: We first ran this story on Sister Jean, the “basketball nun” in 2018, when her beloved team from Loyola University-Chicago made an impressive run in the men’s March Madness tournament. Now the team is back, and pulled off a...
by Jeannie Ralston | Mar 19, 2021
A few years ago, my three best friends from college and I were near the end of a 10-hour hike on the Appalachian Trail last October. And almost at the end of our ropes, frankly. We had climbed 1,500 vertical feet in the morning and then spent several hours winding our...
by Jeannie Ralston | Mar 16, 2021
“No, Jeannie doesn’t have it yet,” I heard my friend say into the telephone. When I looked up, she had turned her back and lowered her voice so she could continue the conversation with her husband about an upcoming outdoor gathering more privately. I...
by Jeannie Ralston | Mar 12, 2021
I never watch horror movies. My imagination doesn’t need any help devising ways that humans can be awful to each other. But there I was, sitting in the dark by myself, watching one of the most frightening movies I’ve seen in ages. I Care A Lot is billed as...