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...

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...

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, August 28, 2018 In high school, my wonderful English teacher, Miss Young, made us memorize a Shakespearean...

Published in ChicagoNow, May 12, 2017 I had saved a message from my late mother on my phone. It breaks my heart that, somehow in...