We Go With Him

2012; Charlie turned 15 and it was a very good year though given the two ER visits for stitches in the back of his head;... Read more →

Clearly this is turning into another of those bike odyssey vacations -- Friday, Charlie in-sisted that he and Jim do the full 16 miles of... Read more →

Of course the day we made it back to the beach (I think it has been almost a year's hiatus?), Charlie excited and tentative but... Read more →

I guess a talky Hollywood historical drama might not be the obvious choice for a boy whose school curriculum does not include social studies and... Read more →

Charlie insisted on a Jersey horse country bike on Christmas Day. We were hesitant after Sunday and he was tired after not sleeping most of... Read more →

Merry Christmas if that is what you celebrate in these ecumenical times! -- Charlie having soundly conked out in the middle of the day after... Read more →

These photos suggest it was just another Sunday bike ride on the Jersey horse country trail. But in reality (what the pictures don't tell), the... Read more →

On Friday (21.12.12), Jim mailed off half the holiday presents (I'm still packing the rest) and exams are all graded though not all grades posted... Read more →

In the context of having dealt quite often with a teenage boy in crisis and liable to self-harm and to other difficult things stemming from... Read more →

Who eat's at McDonald's on Christmas? asks Business Week as if such a notion should be so ludicrous, if not horrendous. I am repelled by... Read more →

I got up around 4-something-am to see what Charlie was up to in the kitchen, his cold again interrupting his sleep, and in the midst... Read more →

You would not know it from this photo,or the amount of physical activity our guy did (4 walks, 21-22-ish miles past the Bayonne Bridge to,... Read more →

I taught my last class of fall semester 2012 on a big wave of emotions. I'd been thinking a lot about Charlie going off to... Read more →

Considering that this fall began with Charlie wrent with anxiety on a Wednesday afternoon knowing that Jim would not be home, due to work, for... Read more →

Not sure if it even took me 15 minutes to walk from Communipaw to my office off of JFK Boulevard, courtesy of following the Gent... Read more →

There are times when you don't need a yellow jacket (Saturday, Bayonne waterfront). Realities (rain, damp, dirt, gravel, general muck, waning hours of daylight as... Read more →

Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, all the holidays have blurred together. Still working through Halloween candy (much shared with my students) and it rather feels like... Read more →

I talked a lot at Charlie's parent-teacher conference last night. It is all a march to him turning 21 now and I know these conferences... Read more →

"Getting sensible about sensory dysfunction" means looking beyond the weighted vests. 'Stuff' is generally not the solution. Read more →