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

I’m younger than Joe Biden, but not by much. I play a version of what Rob Reiner (same age as me) calls Name That Name every day. Nouns...

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...

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...

Published in ChicagoNow, September 18, 2018 One thing about Donald Trump that his base admires is his refusal to apologize. Ever. It...

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

Published in ChicagoNow, August 7, 2018 At a rally in Florida on July 31, Donald Trump whipped his MAGA followers into such an anti-media...

Citizens who are literate make informed decisions Published in ChicagoNow, July 10, 2018 In my home town of Detroit, children do not have...