We Go With Him

A beautiful portrait of Charlie, top two front teeth missing, sits on my in-laws' coffee table. It is a school picture, taken in September 2004... Read more →

For all that Charlie is a superior swimmer----as Jim noted after being in the ocean with him on Saturday, Charlie is nonchalant when a wave... Read more →

Last Monday, the 3rd of July, I wrote that, after, writing daily about Charlie on Autismland for just over a year, I was going to... Read more →

This is Charlie's routine when he goes to the beach. Soon as we hit the sand, it's "sandohs off" and then "s'irt off," with the... Read more →

Charlie got the sads yesterday afternoon. We had just gotten back from a late-afternoon visit to the pool where he had not wanted to do... Read more →

"Ev-weebuddy go!" "Eat cooking rice." "I wahn zhin-gerr, I wanhn peas ann care-rotts." "In dee grey' green room wuzza tell-fone, anna red ball--oon, annee pihcher... Read more →

And eat, swim, and make the rainiest of days merry. Read more →

We went to down to the beach yesterday. Charlie swam far out in the waves and Jim and I were very happy to connect with... Read more →

I started blogging back in June of 2005 with the thought that writing publicly about Charlie on the internet would help me to write a... Read more →

Woebegone is the word for Charlie's face all day, despite a long morning bike ride, sushi for lunch, and a trip to his beloved ocean,... Read more →