Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton Inspires Kids to Learn History
Thrilled to receive Hamilton for Hanukkah Published in ChicagoNow, December 30, 2016 We Should be Teaching our Kids More History in...
Dec 30, 2016
Election of 2016: Worse than 1968? Worse than Watergate? Maybe.
Vintage Nixon Published in ChicagoNow, December 17, 2016 Like many of us who lived through the horrors of 1968, culminating in Richard...
Dec 17, 2016
Warren Cherry: Trump or God or Obama?
Warren Cherry's portrait on the preschool wall Published in ChicagoNow, December 7, 2016 Every year for the past twenty-four years, I...
Dec 7, 2016
Thanksgiving Tribute to the Cherry Preschool Founders: There Were no Selfies Then
The Cherry Preschool founding board (two members missing) Published in ChicagoNow, November 24, 2016 When the founding board of Cherry...
Nov 24, 2016
The Zoo That is our Health Care System
Published in ChicagoNow, November 16, 2016 What kind of health insurance policy is there for a divorced mother of three, working for a...
Nov 16, 2016
Bad Bad Leroy Brown Memories of a Simpler Era
Crank up the stereo! Published in ChicagoNow, November 2, 2016 Last week, ChicagoNow had its monthly writing challenge, “Blogapalooza,”...
Nov 12, 2016
Some Thoughts About Yesterday’s Election
There is still joy and beauty and happiness and love in my world. Published in ChicagoNow, November 9, 2016 Today is the anniversary of...
Nov 9, 2016
2016 Election on November 9: We Need to Find our Common Humanity
My granddaughter in 2008 Published in ChicagoNow, October 26, 2016 Yesterday, my ten-year-old granddaughter reported her classmate was...
Oct 25, 2016
A Nasty Woman Responds
Published in ChicagoNow, October 20, 2016 I’ll claim the title. For the upcoming election, I’m Trump’s worst nightmare. A white, suburban...
Oct 19, 2016
Donald Trump Jr.’s Advice to Women: “Go Teach Kindergarten”
Published in ChicagoNow, October 17, 2016 Apparently, the Trump men feel sexual harassment in the workplace is just part of the job. If...
Oct 16, 2016