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

“Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.” Supposedly, Einstein wrote this on a...

After reading an opinion piece in The New York Times debunking “maternal instinct” as a myth to keep women in their place, I considered...

(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 September 21, 2015 My writing journal is catching up with real time. This is a frightening...

Cartoon by Marcia Liss Published in ChicagoNow, September 15, 2015 My writing journal (AKA Bridget Jones’s Diary for Seniors) for the...

With my mom 65+ years ago Published in ChicagoNow, August 31, 2015 When I started this book writing project, I really thought I could do...

Posted in ChicagoNow, June 23, 2014 Wow, I can’t believe this is my 100th post on ChicagoNow. When I started back in September 2013, I...