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

I hope I look as good as my mother did when I turn 80.

Published in MyRetrospect, September 28, 2024 / Stories I have often longed to “have words with someone,” but rarely do. Being a...

I still have no idea how I lost my phone. When we parked the car and started for the elevator in our building, I patted the zipped pocket...

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...

Funerals were forbidden when I was growing up. They were mysterious events my parents attended with other adults. My first introduction...

Finally reproduced her cake in 2015 A few months after my mother died, I decided to bake her chocolate cake from scratch. My...

I called Endeavor Health to schedule the ABUS screening but was told that Medicare no longer covered it.

I hate how the specter of this disease still haunts my thoughts and informs some of the choices I make. COVID has made me feel old.

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 recently saw a Facebook post that posed the question “What is One Thing You Wish You Could Change About Your Wedding?” I was a young...