We Go With Him

Only two more days of teaching for me in 2010---can't believe it. This was the first time I have arranged to teach almost all (5)... Read more →

I couldn't resist posting one more beach photo. If there is one thing i have learned from being Charlie's mother, it's that I should never... Read more →

While I suspect it might be easier on Charlie rarely, and even never, to have vacations from school---to always live with the schedule of five... Read more →

Saturday's bike ride was perhaps the first ever during which Jim and Charlie sighted a snowflake or two. Considering that it was 39 degrees Fahrenheit... Read more →

The wind at Liberty State Park in Jersey City was so strong on Friday morning that Charlie and Jim found themselves pedaling and pedaling and... Read more →

Thank you for the Thanksgiving wishes and hope you all had a lovely day. Despite the absence of turkey, mashed potatoes, stuffing, cranberry sauce, and... Read more →

We're staying put in a quite literal sense for this Thanksgiving. Charlie does like to be in motion and to go to places but airplane... Read more →

Contrary to appearances, Charlie has been wearing other clothes besides the green shirt and blue shorts he has become something more than over attached to... Read more →

Inclusion of kids needing special ed services is one of those ideas that sounds so good and right and obviously better, and that is, too... Read more →

Rather inevitable that I was shaking my head after reading a column about Ludwig Wittgenstein, the philosopher of language, and autism in the New York... Read more →

We went down to the beach Saturday where, as the previous week, Charlie asked to have the boogie board strapped to his wrist. He took... Read more →

Most days I teach in a very classroom-y sort of classroom, desks in bland colors in rows, fluorescent lights, weary linoleum, dry erase boards. But... Read more →

So due to that early evening nap Charlie took on Wednesday, he did not go to sleep till past 2am yet still managed to get... Read more →

I think it fair to say that we've all heard of the 'Welcome to Holland' piece that compares being a parent to an autistic child,... Read more →

There's a really deep bond between my two guys, a sympathetic symbiosis. Feelings, sensory sensations, states of well (or not so well) being, as the... Read more →

Blogged about some terrible awful stuff at Care2.com. Am very grateful for our good life with our very, very good, lovely boy. He held himself... Read more →

We went out to New Jersey horse country and Jim and Charlie did another 18 mile bike ride. It had kind of looked like we... Read more →

A fisherman did a double take on seeing Charlie, clad in gear more suited to a hot summer day (a swimsuit), making an all-out run... Read more →

Another quote, via Swiss Miss, spurs another blog entry. The best way to complain is to make things. The quote is from one James Murphy... Read more →

Something Barbara wrote in response to my Thursday post about jobs bears repeating: Regarding children with significant learning issues, there is a seemingly larger barrier... Read more →