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

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...

(Or why a seventy-year-old woman wrote her first book) Published in ChicagoNow, June 20, 2016 My younger brother just retired. So did my...

Cartoon by Marcia Liss Published in ChicagoNow October 26, 2015 The media is looking at Joe Biden’s announcement that he will not run for...

Published in ChicagoNow, August 14, 2014 (Cartoon by Marcia Liss) I fear I have lost the capacity to relax and “do nothing.” After many...

Posted in ChicagoNow, July 31, 2014 (Cartoons by Marcia Liss) When I retired last year from my career as a preschool director, I was at...

Published in ChicagoNow, March 12, 2014 When I first started blogging at the end of September, I thought it would be a piece of cake. I...

My first blog post, published in Chicago Now, September 26, 2013 I’m entering the blogosphere at age 68, retired but not really. I was...