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

Published in ChicagoNow, June 25, 2019 Seventy-two years ago today, Anne Frank’s The Diary of a Young Girl was published. I remember...

Published in ChicagoNow, June 24, 2019 Restaurant owners, if seniors who have the money to spend buying pricey meals are avoiding your...

Published in ChicagoNow, June 18, 2019 Today Sir Paul turns 77. Yikes! I still remember, as if it were yesterday (pardon the pun) the...

Published in ChicagoNow, June 13, 2019 My father was a huge fan of Jeopardy. He had an extraordinary memory for certain categories:...

Gathering in the parking lot to celebrate the school opening Published in ChicagoNow, June 7, 2019 The early childhood program I founded,...

Published in ChicagoNow, May 14, 2019 Recently, I joined a writers’ group in which many of us have talked about creating memoirs. Some...

From The Chicago Tribune, May 1, 2019 Published in ChicagoNow, May 2, 2019 On April 30, a young man with a gun opened fire in a classroom...

Published in ChicagoNow, April 16, 2019 That’s a huge applause line from Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton. We are a country of immigrants....

Published in ChicagoNow, April 9, 2019 There is a trend in education to dispense with the traditional biannual parent-teacher...

Published in ChicagoNow, April 25, 2019 In my long career as an early childhood program director, I have given many talks to parents of...