• Deanna Isaacs
  • Wrigley Field, September 1, 2013

Today, with a new shroud of snow topping the remains of a winter that refuses to let us out of its grip, the late-summer day last year when I met Bill Cahill seems like a dream.

He remembered that she was a star reporter at the Chicago Journal of Commerce when he was first hired there, a few years before it was purchased by the Wall Street Journal.

It took me back for a minute to that perfect day. Life, with all its happy coincidences, was in full bloom, and another eight-year-old was at a Cubs game he’ll never forget.