We Go With Him

My student, a senior pre-med biology major, finished translating the 10th sentence of the exercises for lesson 50 of our ancient Greek textbook and I... Read more →

So I prefer not to get too political on this blog but I just want to say (for it must be acknoledged, while Charlie alternated... Read more →

With just three weeks to go of the fall semester on Tuesday, I launched my students into the events of the Peloponnesian War and Pericles'... Read more →

At zero degrees Celsius (after which, post spring rolls and lasagne, both riders needed to hibernate a bit and I was pleased to find, in... Read more →

On a Sunday morning walk (I lost count of how many we've done; there were 3 Saturday with the last at a powerfully fast pace,... Read more →

My grandfather, my mother's father, was quite the athlete. He played tennis and rode his bike into, I think, his seventies (unfortunately, he got into... Read more →

Until about 5.30 pm-ish, Charlie handled the holiday and the inevitable disruptions its traditions and rituals impose on his routines and ritualistic nature. He actually... Read more →

Ever grateful that we're all still together (and taking so many 'family portraits' like these!). Wishing you a lovely Thanksgiving! Read more →

Despite the fact that it was early Tuesday morning with Thanksgiving on the horizon, I taught both my Latin and ancient Greek students a host... Read more →

I find it increasingly am... Read more →

Charlie woke around 3am on Saturday so, after working through a very agitated run-across-the-floor-sudden-and-fast moment, we were not quite the first at the barber's; among... Read more →

There was throwing of some items in art but Charlie held it together. I started really discussing Thucydides in Greek history class and taught my... Read more →

Great day at school, bike ride, more uneasy (but not 'on edge') on Thursday evening. But maybe Charlie having woken at 4am-ish, helped himself to... Read more →

Radix malorum non cupiditas est (quod ille ignoscens in fabulis Canterburiensibus Chauceronis dicit) sed Pisces Suecici. In other words, the reason (on top of post-hurricane-ness... Read more →

There's been so much talk around here of the need for things to 'return to normal' that I've reflected on how there really isn't any... Read more →

It was a beautiful warm November day and Charlie and Jim had a lovely bike ride in the morning and looked forward to a long... Read more →

'Resetting his clock' was how Jim explained us being up last night at 3.30am with Charlie and I'd say that is the best explanation, also... Read more →

I taught my classes, with a good majority of students in attendance, for the first time in around two weeks on Friday. Everyone had a... Read more →

I wrote in a note to Charlie's teacher that Wednesday (after lunch in particular) he might be distempered with stomach discomfort due to just a... Read more →

I got a good taste of stomach-in-your-mouth anxiety such as Charlie must experience all day and into the late hours of Tuesday, checking the US... Read more →