We Go With Him

No cars were moving more than a few inches at a time when we pulled onto the Garden State Parkway on Saturday at noon so... Read more →

Charlie's teacher noted that he used the self-check to check out his groceries on his class's weekly grocery store trip Friday. That little note made... Read more →

I wrote this post on Care2.com about 20 year-old Bryan Nevins who died last Saturday after being left in a locked minivan by two caretakers... Read more →

'Fitness buff.' Not a term I would have used about Charlie a year ago. Sure, he's been doing bike rides regularly since Jim took off... Read more →

Next Tuesday: That's when Charlie will start taking the bus home from the Big Autism Center to our house. Yesterday morning Jim and I met... Read more →

The clunky title of this post sums up one of the greatest lessons I've learned in life with Charlie. Charlie is 'verbal' in the sense... Read more →

The beach is one of the few places where we find ourselves simply standing and looking. Most of all we're looking at Charlie and calculating... Read more →

At one point yesterday, all three of us were in the ocean. Jim was the farthest out where there was a sudden mountain of waves---it... Read more →

Well it finally happened. The newsworthy heat got to Charlie. School was pretty good Friday except for a brief period in the morning when (perhaps... Read more →

Charlie and I were driving in the white car after an aborted trip to Target late Wednesday afternoon. Nothing of any particular interest, excitement, or... Read more →

This summer of 2010 seeming very likely to be about to go down as the Hottest Ever Since They Started Keeping Records (at least so... Read more →

It has become a summer of carnivals and rides for us, it seems. Rather indulgent, perhaps, but Jim and I rather feel that we're making... Read more →

Thanks to Jill, Antonio DA, Barbara, and Melanie for your comments on Monday's post, Stick With It, in regard to the curious pattern in Charlie's... Read more →

Terribly slow traffic on the Garden State Parkway Sunday meant that it took us almost three hours to get to the beach and so, when... Read more →

Then you'd be reading double dailies about our boy Cholly. Here's one by Jim over at On the Irish Waterfront. Read more →

Because we've been wanting to bring the kayak back to the beach and, at one of his lectures about On the Irish Waterfront, Jim met... Read more →

The carnival was very crowded, for Friday was the last night; I had time to get two (ridiculously overpriced) cans of diet Coke while Jim... Read more →

Autism: A Disease of the Rich? is the title of a New York Times Freakonomics blog post on this PLOS One study, Socioeconomic Inequality in... Read more →

There's a little memorial to a mother of a child on the autism spectrum, Clara Claiborne Park, over at Care2.com by me. Park's 2002 book,... Read more →

It seems that I have acquired eyes on my back. Once upon a time, I used always to say that, for safety’s sake, I could... Read more →