Two friends and I went down to the Taste of Chicago to see (hear?) Stevie Wonder. The crowd was beyond description. We inched along in a line that was supposed […]
Author Archives: Peggy Tarr
Peggy Tarr has been a columnist for the Evanston RoundTable since its founding in 1998. Born in Bruce Springsteen's hometown of Freehold, New Jersey, she graduated from Rutgers University with a degree in zoology, which led to an early career in lab science. After zigzagging to universities across the country in the early 1970s, she and her husband arrived at Northwestern and settled in Evanston to raise their family. She obtained a second degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in painting. She was chair of the Nichols Neighbors association for many years.
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Another View
An acquaintance vigorously spoke the same thoughts I had verbalized to relatives and friends: It’s too bad the Catholic Church didn’t remove priests who molested kids as quickly as it […]
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Ode to Father
“Your dad was present when you were born,” Mom often told me with a smile. “He wiped my brow and held my hand, never leaving me all the while.” When […]
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Runaway Child
A friend recently told me that her niece (10 years old) had run away from home. Her niece was angry with her mother for demanding that she complete a task […]
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Attention, Please
In recognition of mothers every day Story 1: It was a bitterly cold and windy day, but the mother just had to get out of the house; she was going […]
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Bigotry and Bullying
A bigot, as defined by Webster’s dictionary, is “a narrow-minded person who is intolerant of other creeds, opinions, races, etc., that differs from one’s own.” Bigotry is defined as “the […]
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Our Future!
The God Was sat shaking its head, distressed by hearing what was said by humans who lied and distorted facts and unconscionably committed barbaric acts. Compassion and ethics! Where now […]
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Ida B. Wells
Since it’s still National Women’s History Month and since the Associated Press ran an article in February on George W. Bush’s statements against the use of nooses and noose jokes, […]
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Women, Still Growing
It’s almost National Women’s History Month. I revisited a book of nursery rhymes and was again struck by some of the notions about women and girls. “Here’s Sulky Sue, What […]
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Ich Liebe Dich* (I Love You)
It’s Black History Month and the week before Valentine’s Day. Marietta and John had been together for almost 50 years, 50 years come Valentine’s Day. They had five children but […]