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

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

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

Maya and Bubbe Written May 7,2015 This is my first Mother’s Day without Mom. When my mother died last month, my 9-year-old granddaughter...

From The Chicago Tribune, May 1, 2019 Published in ChicagoNow, May 2, 2019 On April 30, a young man with a gun opened fire in a classroom...

Savannah was very tolerant Published in ChicagoNow, December 18, 2018 Yesterday, I had to pick up my granddaughter from middle school so...

Mom and me, about 30 years ago. Thinking of her today. Published in ChicagoNow, April 17, 2018 OMG, it was snowing in Chicago on April...

Growing up like sisters Published in ChicagoNow, June 20, 2017 When my late mother entered her eighties, she often told me about which...

Published in ChicagoNo, September 21, 2016 My mother wore it until they took it from her in the hospital before she died. I remember when...

Photo by Kathy Clark Published in ChicagoNow , August 3, 2016 As I see my mother’s favorite wildflower, Queen Anne’s Lace, popping up in...

Baseball was my father’s passion all of his life Published in ChicagoNow, June 18, 2016 (Adapted from an essay in my book Terribly...