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

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

It is my first “where were you when this happened” memory. On November 22, 1963, when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, I was...

Thanksgiving 1989 My children would probably say that I am a lot like my mother (pictured above). By the time they were old enough to...

Part One: My Childhood At my writers’ group, we talked about a challenge suggested by Nina Raskin: Think about who sat at your table from...

This memoir is dedicated to my writing group I was born with black hair. Unlike my beloved cousin Annette, my mother didn’t have to cover...

Nutcracker on Ice 1993 Published in ChicagoNow, December 17, 2019 Nothing says holidays for me better than hearing music from The...

Published in ChicagoNow, June 18, 2019 Today Sir Paul turns 77. Yikes! I still remember, as if it were yesterday (pardon the pun) the...

Published in ChicagoNow, May 14, 2019 Recently, I joined a writers’ group in which many of us have talked about creating memoirs. Some...

Published in ChicagoNow, February 13, 2019 My mother bequeathed all of the love letters she and my father wrote to each other during...

Published in ChicagoNow, December 4, 2018 I just gifted my great niece with one of the flower girl dresses my granddaughters had worn for...