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

Welcome to Cherry Preschool 2001 On this 23rd anniversary of 9/11, I’m lamenting the loss of community and caring I felt in the aftermath...

On November 30, 2023, the City of Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission held a special meeting with one agenda item. It was to vote...

I always hated this option on multiple choice exams. There was often a reason to suspect that one of the suggested answers could be...

Published in ChicagoNow, June 25, 2019 Seventy-two years ago today, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl was published. I remember...

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...

Published in ChicagoNow, April 16, 2019 That’s a huge applause line from Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. We are a country of immigrants....

Published in ChicagoNow, January 14, 2019 The start of the new millennium was so frightening it had a special name: Y2K (Year 2000). In...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 25, 2018 As I am writing this, a total of ten pipe bombs addressed to critics of Donald Trump have been...

Published in ChicagoNow, October 4, 2018 October is Bullying Prevention Month. How fitting that, on October 2, our Bully-in-Chief, Donald...

Headed for a "tender age" shelter Published in ChicagoNow, August 30, 2018 There are still over 500 children, many of them under age...