Sep 11
Twenty-Three Years Later: Trying to Remember the Power of Community and Caring
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...
Dec 14, 2023
A City Divided and United
On November 30, 2023, the City of Evanston Equity and Empowerment Commission held a special meeting with one agenda item. It was to vote...
Nov 13, 2023
None of the Above
I always hated this option on multiple choice exams. There was often a reason to suspect that one of the suggested answers could be...
Jun 25, 2019
Detention Centers for Children: America's Shame
Published in ChicagoNow, June 25, 2019 Seventy-two years ago today, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl was published. I remember...
May 2, 2019
When a Mass Shooting of College Students is Not Breaking News
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...
Apr 16, 2019
Immigrants: They Get the Job Done
Published in ChicagoNow, April 16, 2019 That’s a huge applause line from Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. We are a country of immigrants....
Jan 14, 2019
Y2K and Today Some Belated Thoughts for the New Year
Published in ChicagoNow, January 14, 2019 The start of the new millennium was so frightening it had a special name: Y2K (Year 2000). In...
Oct 25, 2018
Ten Bombs so Far: You Reap the Anger You Sow
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...
Oct 4, 2018
The Bully in Chief Belittles Christine Blasey Ford
Published in ChicagoNow, October 4, 2018 October is Bullying Prevention Month. How fitting that, on October 2, our Bully-in-Chief, Donald...
Aug 30, 2018
How Can You See This and Still Support the Trump Border Policy?
Headed for a "tender age" shelter Published in ChicagoNow, August 30, 2018 There are still over 500 children, many of them under age...