We Go With Him

Slides to accompany “You love the impossible: Antigone, Dictee, and the Asian American reception of classical literature”, on Sophocles’ tragedy and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s... Read more →

Remember how I went to every private autism school in New Jersey and a few more to spare and we moved in with Jim's parents... Read more →

First, Charlie finished out the last days of his teenage-year decade and opened up the one he'll spend his twenties in with a solid 18... Read more →

I used to be a blogger and occasionally the spirit arises in me, for instance when writing up this week's discussion forum assignment for my... Read more →

Just ask Jim: I am not politically minded and grateful he watches the election coverage (Presidential debates, Vice-Presidential debates, post-debate-analysis etc.) routinely and with a... Read more →

~Charlie enjoying a not-made-by-me lunch.~ It's been 15 or so years that I have been making and packing lunch for Charlie to eat at school.... Read more →

Long story, but I would never have been able to put together the above without -- you guessed it -- 19 long and good years... Read more →

In looking over the most recent photos of Charlie as of those from his school's annual prom, and even though I have witnessed his steady... Read more →

Match! redux. Go Bucs. Read more →

I used to think that every birthday for Charlie would be increasingly difficult for me to wrap my thoughts around. Starting a long time ago,... Read more →

For the record, I have a black rain jacket and I do not, like the rest of our family unit, wear size large. Read more →

Hilsdorf 203 (my old office at Saint Peter's) For 8 1/2 years I was the Classics professor at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City. In... Read more →

Charlie's Winter Break began on Wednesday, December 16th. This is to say, there was no school for 19 days, in (I am quite sure) the... Read more →

Did I say we are gratissimi ('very/utmost/the most grateful' -- Latin, superlative of gratus) for quite a lot? Read more →

And the next day, we did the other kind of riding into a 23 mph wind. Read more →

IPP supported living supported employment independent living direct support a "quality management process" (as compared to the usual "quality assurance") self-determination legacy homes integrated communities... Read more →

I feel like such a Luddite but I really do prefer actual, real, physical, tangible, can-mark-with-a-pencil-or-pen, paper books. For teaching languages, an e-book is dreadfully... Read more →