We Go With Him

A great bike ride followed this photo. Then Charlie was somber, barely talked, and went to bed right after dinner. He woke around 10pm, hung... Read more →

To the unschooled, the progress that someone (this would be Charlie, who had a good school day on Monday though he was very tired) has... Read more →

Charlie and I had a 20 minute conversation last night! This is what he said. N.B.: All the words describe things and people from his... Read more →

Charlie just woke up at what is a bit of an early hour and is eating a snack / quite early breakfast. Unusual but Saturday... Read more →

Almost every seat was taken in the pediatricians' waiting room. Charlie wanted to stand anyways and he therefore appeared even more as a giant redwood... Read more →

Pace TS Eliot, August is the cruelest month in our household. Charlie has a week and a half more of summer school and then 7... Read more →

Despite a double dose of melatonin, Charlie stood in his room making various noises as 2am approached. The humidex is supposed to go up on... Read more →

Charlie wasn't feeling his best when he got to school on Tuesday. He had woken at 5am, we had walked, he had fallen asleep in... Read more →

Life is good because we're the tight team o' three, together, stick with us! As Jim has taught Charlie to say. Jim and I agreed... Read more →

I didn't realize what a great smile Charlie had in this photo taken Sunday afternoon at Liberrty State Park till I looked over my pictures... Read more →

Saturday it was Aunt Karen's funeral in Sacramento. I so wanted to be there, I feel very wrenched in my stomach thinking about it. But... Read more →

Friday night, Charlie summoned me to his room ('tickle, mommy'), pulled up the new Barney album I had just put on his iPad Thursday and... Read more →

Aside from noting that it is a shocking 75 degrees (still humid though; New Jersey must be true to itself), there is not so much... Read more →

When you hear Jimi Hendrix from Charlie's room at 11pm, you know it could be a 4am-er. I've hesitated to give him too much melatonin,... Read more →

My parents leaving on Wednesday and extreme heat (around 100 degrees): Too much for a sensitive boy of many feelings. It was a big and... Read more →

Up at 5am, 3 walks, a bike ride under a simmering summer sun, taking Eponymous off Charlie's iPad at his request but keeping Monster and... Read more →

Every caper has its coda. Due to the dousing of water Charlie gave his iPad, and my taking its case apart to dry it off,... Read more →

Well, Saturday began as Friday had, early (6.30am) and with a walk request from Charlie who ran urgently and then there was another altercation (different... Read more →

Fitful would be how to describe how Charlie slept Thursday night -- something about the weather and a feeling in the air. He was cracking... Read more →

Thank you for all the kind words about Aunt Karen. Thursday felt very strange, knowing she has passed. She was always glad to hear about... Read more →