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

Photo by Mellierene4 via Flickr Published in ChicagoNow, March 29, 2018 Gus Lira has been Cherry Preschool’s custodian for most of its...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 27, 2018 When my husband was five back in 1951, he had a recurring dream that he could fly. My brother had...

Generation Columbine at ETHS. Photo by Katelyn Varhely Published in ChicagoNow, March 19, 2018 My grandkids are part of what has sadly...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 13, 2018 I’ve been taking a class on Hamilton the musical versus what was really happening back then, and...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 9, 2018 March 4 was National Grammar Day, so this is a belated rant about one of my pet peeves: the misuse...

When the ballet skirts I ordered for my granddaughter’s birthday arrived from a Florida retailer that sells clothing for dancers, I was...

Kind of looks like POTUS Published in ChicagoNow, March 1, 2018 In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday (March 2, 1904), I implore the president...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 30, 2018 at 10:02 am You know the one I mean. Fire and Fury. After hearing the author, Michael Wolff,...

Freedom from Want by Norman Rockwell, 1943 Published in ChicagoNow,. January 29, 2018 Courtland Sykes, a Republican running for Senate...

My sign for 2018 featuring one of my grandkids at the 2017 March Published in ChicagoNow, January 22, 2018 By Chicago standards, January...