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

Thanksgiving 1989 My children would probably say that I am a lot like my mother (pictured above). By the time they were old enough to...

Part One: My Childhood At my writers’ group, we talked about a challenge suggested by Nina Raskin: Think about who sat at your table from...

2013 — Just retired and on a trip When I was 65, I stepped down from being Executive Director of Cherry Preschool to mentor the new...

This memoir is dedicated to my writing group I was born with black hair. Unlike my beloved cousin Annette, my mother didn’t have to cover...

Remnants of our original Barbies that my granddaughters also used After seeing Barbie with my daughter and granddaughter, my daughter...

During the pandemic, we decided to forgo indoor restaurants in the interests of avoiding unnecessary exposure to COVID. This summer, we...

With two of my granddaughters in 2022 When Randy Newman’s song, Short People, came out in 1977, I laughed. Clearly, it was a satirical...

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Supposedly, Einstein wrote this on a...

After reading an opinion piece in The New York Times debunking “maternal instinct” as a myth to keep women in their place, I considered...

“You can’t understand someone until you’ve walked a mile in their shoes.” — American saying, author unknown Part of aging is the physical...