We Go With Him

Wednesday was 5 walks, 3 longish (but not as long as yesterday's) car rides, and 1 bike ride. By mid-afternoon it was sunny and getting... Read more →

Day 2 of Charlie's Spring Break brought more rain and still more rain, so that the mega-puddle I encountered on my walk from the Journal... Read more →

Monday was Day 1 of Charlie's Spring Break. Monday being the day when I teach pretty much straight through the hours of 9am - 3pm,... Read more →

It was Jim's birthday yesterday so obviously we had to celebrate by going to our family's favorite place. Yes, the beach. This particular beach is... Read more →

Charlie wanted a ride in the early afternoon, after lunch and a bike ride during which he pedaled superfast, Jim right behind him (pedaling equally... Read more →

Many of us who travel in what I've sometimes called Autismland know the story "Welcome to Holland." Raising an autistic child is compared to traveling... Read more →

Jim gave a lecture at my college last night. Charlie had had another good day at school (only wearing the helmet now from 8.45 -... Read more →

Ah, motherhood, what will you have me doing next. How about single-handedly putting a slice of watermelon into a plastic bag while driving on the... Read more →

School starts for Charlie at 8.45am but yesterday we weren't in the car until almost 8.30. It takes us around 40 minutes to get to... Read more →

In preparing for the Greece trip, I put a mental "not thinking about this till after we get back" note on a number of things.... Read more →

It was in the 70s (Fahrenheit----have been working on converting temperatures in Celsius to Fahrenheit in my head) and sunny Sunday morning. Charlie slept in... Read more →

Spend nine days away from Charlie and the boy you come back to: - Has grown a couple of inches, or at least appears to... Read more →

On the afternoon of our last day in Greece, I went on a long walk by myself. Some of my students had gone, via tram,... Read more →

As we've been driving around Greece in our purple bubble-gum colored bus, I've been constantly thinking: What would it be like if Jim and charlie... Read more →

We're in the Archaeological Museum of Thessaloniki and listening to our tour guide talk about neolithic artifacts when I hear the little ding ding that... Read more →

Am writing to you from Thessaloniki in Macedonia, the second largest city in Greece. We drove into the city around 5pm and will be here... Read more →

Up in the mountains where it's cold and the view is almost too grand. Read more →

I told Charlie I'd post a photo of my every day on my blog and am afraid I haven't done that due to technology/internet-access issues... Read more →

Maybe my little appeal to Zeus worked. It rained in Olympia on Saturday night and was still drizzling on Sunday morning, to the extent that... Read more →

It's rain rain rain in New Jersey. Roads and streets closed. Monsoon amounts of water falling all Saturday (starting on Friday) from the sky and... Read more →