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

Maya and Bubbe Written May 7,2015 This is my first Mother’s Day without Mom. When my mother died last month, my 9-year-old granddaughter...

Early in the pandemic, when everything was shut down, my iPhone decided to throw in the towel. I ordered a new one online and...

While I hated texting at first, I have come to accept that it is probably the best way to communicate with family and friends....

Out maskless at granddaughter's performance Reflecting back to March, 2020, we had just returned from our grandkids’ swim meet in Indiana...

Our first TV behind our first baby, who is riding a low-tech wooden giraffe Our first TV was a wedding gift from my grandparents, which...

During a recent hospitalization, someone came into my room and asked me that. Without my iPhone close at hand, I panicked for a second....

I naively (and arrogantly) thought there were ways to avoid some of the pretty bad encounters my brother and friends have had recently...

Let’s get the personal blame game over quickly. My brother has just started peritoneal dialysis for advanced kidney disease. That part...

Despite efforts to make people’s perception of pain quantifiable or more objective (think all of those pain scale ratings, zero being no...

We opened the wall In 1624, John Donne wrote, “No man is an island, entire of itself.” Of course, he was writing about the...