Supermarket Demons
30 September 2010
I was hesitant to word the title for this post as I have, lest there be any thought of associating autism with demons or anything... Read more →
September 2010
Seriousness and Light
29 September 2010
After a 6am---'lateish'---wake-up with accompanying as-the-sun-was-rising walk, Charlie had a fine day at school on Wednesday. Then the director of his school called me at... Read more →
A Miracle or Magic, Maybe
29 September 2010
Our Tuesday could have begun at 1.30am. Charlie had gone to sleep before 8.30pm the night before. Such an early bedtime pretty much portends an... Read more →
A Lot Can Happen In a Little Bit of Time
27 September 2010
The best way to describe Monday is through a timeline. 4am. Charlie wakes up. Showers, etc. 4.25am. Charlie asks for a walk. Jim suggests a... Read more →
Pretty Okay: Few Words, Lots to Translate
26 September 2010
Charlie woke up at 5.20am, showered, and came down the stairs exuberantly. It was 'no' to a walk and then he went to get his... Read more →
My plane landed early in Newark Airport. Jim and Charlie and my parents had gone to Liberty State Park to ride bikes in what was... Read more →
Charlie did good at school, as his teacher emailed me and Jim noted. He took the bus home and then wanted my dad to sit... Read more →
Each and Every Moment
23 September 2010
Clearly I need to work on Charlie and me standing next to each other (as in days gone past). In looking over my posts, I... Read more →
The Purple Beads Story (on video)
22 September 2010
Thank you to everyone for your good wishes about finding Charlie's purple beads. Alas, the beads have yet to be found. As a result of... Read more →
It was only after I uploaded today's 'daily (Charlie) photo' into my blogging platform that I saw, just to his left, the words on the... Read more →
Monday morning I was trying out a new route to drive Charlie to school that, Jim reported, had taken them a mere 34 minutes on... Read more →
I can't remember the last time that we, who are very much a 'beachy' family, went to the beach. (It was a couple of weeks... Read more →
The iPad certainly seems to have become The Hot Thing to have if there's someone on the autism spectrum in your household and, too, if... Read more →
It was towards the end of my Intermediate Latin class in the early afternoon on Friday and, with 15 minutes to go, I was going... Read more →
Always With You (in traffic; with iPad)
16 September 2010
Charlie and I left for school at the (much more reasonable time of) 7.50am on Thursday morning. This meant that we didn't have to go... Read more →
Morning Stars
15 September 2010
Charlie woke up at 4am on Wednesday morning. By 5am he and I were out walking under the stars. I sighted Orion and the Big... Read more →
First, a bus update. Still waiting to hear about a bus to take Charlie home. Yes, contacting the transportation department and the special ed director... Read more →
The Twelve Tables, the Roman forum, and the finer points of litigation in ancient Rome are calling me tonight, plus I've got to write some... Read more →
It was a rainy Sunday and we passed it quietly, around home. Still got in bike rides: Yes, different shirts; Jim and Charlie got semi-soaked... Read more →
Before heading out to the New Jersey horse country bike path, we stopped to at a gas station to put air in in the bikes's... Read more →