Still Advocating
Writings of a retired educator, advocate, & baby boomer

On Sunday, February 2, we enjoyed a performance by the Evanston Symphony Orchestra followed by an early dinner with good friends at a...

Love sustained me through a great loss   I was scrolling through my photos looking for something else when this picture caught my eye. It...

I have been wearing hearing aids for at least fifteen years for a mild to moderate hearing loss, and they are fine in most circumstances....

I am heartbroken over how the pandemic impacted my grandchildren. What they lost can never be fixed.

I hope I look as good as my mother did when I turn 80.

Published in MyRetrospect, September 28, 2024 / Stories I have often longed to “have words with someone,” but rarely do. Being a...

I still have no idea how I lost my phone. When we parked the car and started for the elevator in our building, I patted the zipped pocket...

Welcome to Cherry Preschool 2001 On this 23rd anniversary of 9/11, I’m lamenting the loss of community and caring I felt in the aftermath...

Funerals were forbidden when I was growing up. They were mysterious events my parents attended with other adults. My first introduction...

Finally reproduced her cake in 2015 A few months after my mother died, I decided to bake her chocolate cake from scratch. My...