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...

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

Published in ChicagoNow, September 8, 2017 You either love dolls or hate them. I am definitely in the doll-lovers camp. My mother adored...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 21, 2016 I just bid farewell to what was once a marvel of technology, our 32-inch Panasonic TV. Back in...

The notions department at Vogue Fabrics Published in ChicagoNow, February 25, 2016 When was the last time you saw a sales clerk write out...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 12, 2016 Guess what I found in the attic Sunday morning? A 1,000-piece jigsaw puzzle called Groovin’...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 17, 2014 I recently found part of a love letter written to one of my daughters over 20 years ago when...