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

Headed for a "tender age" shelter Published in ChicagoNow, August 30, 2018 There are still over 500 children, many of them under age...

Published in ChicagoNow, August 7, 2018 At a rally in Florida on July 31, Donald Trump whipped his MAGA followers into such an anti-media...

John Moore/Getty Images Published in ChicagoNow, June 18, 2018 There was a dog whistle in Kellyanne Conway’s interview with Chuck Todd on...

Mom and me, about 30 years ago. Thinking of her today. Published in ChicagoNow, April 17, 2018 OMG, it was snowing in Chicago on April...

A fifth grader out canvassing for a referendum (who happens to be my granddaughter) Published in ChicagoNow, April 9, 2018 I have read...

Kind of looks like POTUS Published in ChicagoNow, March 1, 2018 In honor of Dr. Seuss’s birthday (March 2, 1904), I implore the president...

Published in ChicagoNow, January 30, 2018 at 10:02 am You know the one I mean. Fire and Fury. After hearing the author, Michael Wolff,...

My sign for 2018 featuring one of my grandkids at the 2017 March Published in ChicagoNow, January 22, 2018 By Chicago standards, January...

In Springfield with Honest Abe & his family By Laurie Levy, November 13, 2017 Governor Bruce Rauner and Secretary of the Illinois...

Perkins with Eleanor Roosevelt in 1961, the 50th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire Published in ChicagoNow, October 24,...