We Go With Him

It is said that it is an earthquake's aftershocks are the most dangerous, and wreak the most havoc, the real tragedy. Tragedy has come to... Read more →

Charlie woke up at 5am and ran into our room, his face joyful and eyes screwed up in a grin. He chatted and curled up... Read more →

"I want to eat green apple!" A six-word complete sentence said by Charlie on his own this morning. It was a year and a half... Read more →

Charlie has been talking a lot and very clearly and spontaneously these past few days, and also connecting a lot socially and emotionally with other... Read more →

mingled with all kinds of colors That is fragment #152 of Sappho, pantodapais[i] mem[e]ichmena chroiaisin if transliterated from the ancient Greek. Just three words do... Read more →

"Kiss!" smiled Charlie, eyes wrinkling as, laughing, he wrapped his arms around his departing ABA therapist. "Mmmuh!" (Smack.) "Mmmuh!" (Smack.) "Bye Charlie," the therapist smiled... Read more →

Since Charlie had only one speech therapy session today (his other speech session was cancelled as the therapist had a medical appointment) and that one... Read more →

Tornados, hurricanes, Nor'easters: More than a few times people have told me, "I can deal with those but----earthquakes? You Californians can have them!" This line... Read more →

I needed to get sodas for an event at my job on Wednesday and decided that it would be more economical to get them myself... Read more →

My parents gave Charlie an iPod music player last year. After several years of trying to rub and scrape fingerprints and gunk off the bottoms... Read more →

The ancient Greek word anagignôskô means "I read" as well as "I know again, I know well, I know for sure: gignôskô on its own... Read more →

Charlie started Lesson 2 of the Edmark Reading Program and got 22 out of 25 correct! This lesson follows the same format as Lesson 1... Read more →

One day into trying the new procedure for the Edmark Reading Program--asking Charlie to point to and label a picture, then to "find another" of... Read more →

"Being the best that you can be" is one way to translate the ancient Greek word arete, whose basic meaning is "excellence" or "virtue." Aretê... Read more →

For all of the time Charlie has been on the gluten-free casein-free diet (almost seven years) I have often been Ogre Mom when it comes... Read more →

In contrast to yesterday when the three of us went barely further than the front sidewalk (invisible under 24 inches of snow), today Charlie (home... Read more →

With February 14th on the horizon, some of my students were lamenting their "unattached" state last week. We were working our way through the Roman... Read more →

Preparing Charlie for the dentist. Keeping track of how many multiple-word phrases and sentences Charlie says each day. Assuring Charlie that his grandparents--who are now... Read more →

Charlie's teacher has been putting homework worksheets into his backpack. He is just starting the Edmark reading program and learning to direct his eyes from... Read more →

"A healthy mind in a healthy body." Mens sana in corpore sano: This phrase is often taken to mean that having "mental well-being" leads to... Read more →