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

2001-2002 School Year On the anniversary of 9/11 every year, I think of the power of community and caring. My memory of that day is forever linked to the early childhood educators of Cherry Preschool, who were a caring community trying to manage their own terror to shield young children and comfort their families. Those kids are now adults. I doubt they have any memory of the day at all, but my colleagues and I at Cherry Preschool will never forget it. Because it was what w

Still have the Y-K glasses we used to toast in the new millennium In 2000, we had just survived the Y-2K fiasco (there was some concern all computers would crash because they wouldn’t recognize the new century). I was foolishly hopeful that a person of integrity and intelligence would be the next president. I remember reading about George W. Bush in a magazine at the doctor’s office. How could a man who had basically failed at everything in his life, from his businesses and

Welcome to preschool Published in ChicagoNow, September 11, 2014 The kids whose first day of preschool was September 11, 2001 are in high...