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

By Laurie Levy, April 28, 2014 Today is Yom HaShoah, Holocaust Remembrance Day. April 28, 2014, corresponds to the 27th day of Nisan on...

Posted in ChicagoNow, April 24, 2014 (cartoon by Marcia Liss) My 90-year-old mother likes to tell me I’m her mother now. What I think she...

Cartoon by Marcia Liss Published in ChicagoNow, April 24, 2014 Is it possible to be a helicopter daughter, parent, and grandparent all at...

Posted in ChicagoNow, April 10, 2014 (cartoon by Marcia Liss) I’m not a particularly observant Jew, so I really have no right to complain...

Posted in ChicagoNow, April 7, 2014 During a recent gathering of my family, my grandkids staged numerous performances of scenes and songs...

In her Korean hanbok with her Mom's tallit Published in ChicagoNow, March 17, 2014 My guest blogger today is my almost eight-year-old...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 12, 2014 When I first started blogging at the end of September, I thought it would be a piece of cake. I...

Published in ChicagoNow, February 25, 2014 “It’s confusing and I only kind of liked it,” was my 7-year-old granddaughter’s initial...

Published in ChicagoNow, February 5, 2014 It's been over 25 years since Robert Fulghum published Everything I Wanted to Know I Learned in...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 30, 2014 The guy in the mask is my four-year-old grandson who “attends” preschool five half-days a week...