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

My father was a huge fan of Jeopardy. He had an extraordinary memory for certain categories: history, sports, art, classical literature, and music and entertainment from the 1940s. I remember him shouting out the answers he knew and grumbling about categories like popular culture that were out of his wheelhouse. Much like his obsession with watching or listening to every inning of a Tigers baseball game, his daily devotion to Jeopardy was for old people. I avoided it like the

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

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