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

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

I hate how the specter of this disease still haunts my thoughts and informs some of the choices I make. COVID has made me feel old.

Early in the pandemic, when everything was shut down, my iPhone decided to throw in the towel. I ordered a new one online and...

Our first TV behind our first baby, who is riding a low-tech wooden giraffe Our first TV was a wedding gift from my grandparents, which...

During a recent hospitalization, someone came into my room and asked me that. Without my iPhone close at hand, I panicked for a second....

Despite efforts to make people’s perception of pain quantifiable or more objective (think all of those pain scale ratings, zero being no...

2013 — Just retired and on a trip When I was 65, I stepped down from being Executive Director of Cherry Preschool to mentor the new...

“You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” — American saying, author unknown Part of aging is the physical...

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, June 13, 2019 My father was a huge fan of Jeopardy. He had an extraordinary memory for certain categories:...