Sunday was fireworks-less in our household. Charlie slept in a little (till 8am). We did walks (2---short and long) and rides (3---school, grocery store, Jersey... Read more →
January 2010
I was a big fan of Claire Danes and My So-Called Life back in 1994. I was some years past the age of teenage angst,... Read more →
No, I could not resist that title----read Mark Haddon's novel some five years ago, and still remember it down to its details. Dogs figure significantly... Read more →
Jim went to Philadelphia yesterday to give a talk to an Irish lawyers group (last week it was the Celtic Medical Society or some such... Read more →
I opened up Charlie's school notebook to read that he'd had a "wonderful day." He's been working well, talking and requesting. Lately, his teacher wrote... Read more →
What if---as in "what if Charlie were not........Charlie?" On the autism spectrum. Able to talk a little, but not enough at all. At a separate... Read more →
On a January 23rd post on the City Brights blog on SFGate.com, Laura Shumaker wrote about "drive by phone calls" in describing her reaction after... Read more →
Though Sunday was a grey day, we went, as noted above by Charlie, to the ocean. If you've read my blogging from the days when... Read more →
Via lagloria via Izzyland on Twitter, I read this article on autism in Haiti in Spectrum Magazine by Cris Italia. One commenter, a librarian at... Read more →
Friday was a 7 to 7 kind of day. Charlie woke up at the completely reasonable time of 7am; did well at school (enjoying a... Read more →
Charlie woke up at 3.45am on Thursday. He did take himself back to bed around 5am after he'd gotten something to eat (i.e., an incredibly... Read more →
After several months of typing the names of not-yet-forgotten PBS kid shows into the Search box of YouTube, I am pleased to announce that Charlie... Read more →
The boy who misses school on his holiday goes to bed early on the night of said holiday, in happy anticipation of "school tomorrow!". Boy... Read more →
It looks like I may have to rethink some of my strategy for whenever Charlie has a day, or days, off from school. I've frequently... Read more →
Charlie does not have school today, Monday, the 18th of January. As I've regularly written before, no school for Charlie is usually cause for a... Read more →
It warmed up quite a bit on Saturday here in New Jersey. Not surprisingly, Jim got out the bikes and he and Charlie went on... Read more →
I went to visit Charlie at the Big Autism Center on Friday morning. His teacher had first planned on asking me to come at 10.30... Read more →
Such as Raising kids may lower blood pressure. No, I'm not trying to be sarcastic. It's a study by Brigham Young University scientists and was... Read more →
This post is about how a strategy of "letting go and letting be" has helped me do (I hope) a better job of helping Charlie... Read more →
This post is about the difficulties of writing about something very difficult, self-injurious behavior and, specifically, head-banging. Things which I, prior to having lived through... Read more →