Top 16 Tips For a Charlie Friendly Party
03 June 2013
(1) Don't tell him that you're having a party to celebrate him turning 16 on the Ides of May. In full awareness of birthday party... Read more →
Accommodations
The Last 2 Lines of 'Easter 1916' By Yeats
19 January 2013
We drove down to the beach where we used to stay at the beach house on Saturday morning and drove on sandy streets and sand... Read more →
Sunrise, Sunset, and the Sun Always Rises
06 June 2012
Jim took this great photo of Charlie in the woods in the middle of a bike ride. If you look closely, you can see that... Read more →
Easy Come, Easy Go
23 October 2011
Sunday involved three bikes rides sandwiched between an 8am walk and another at 8pm. It was warm in the middle of the day and there's... Read more →
Time Out From Timers and the Prehistoric Autistic Person
05 June 2011
The weekends have been quite peaceful around here. Usually Charlie wants (demands) to get into the white car and drive off somewhere as soon as... Read more →
No Kung Fu Panda 2 For Us
29 May 2011
As the above photo attests, the bike trail won over the beach yesterday. The temperature was into the low 90s degrees Fahrenheit so a dip... Read more →
We Get Sick Together, We Stick Together
10 February 2011
Thursday morning, we weren't convinced that Charlie was going to make it to school and that he had indeed had a relapse on Wednesday. He... Read more →
A Lesson in Efficiency
09 November 2010
Charlie's 8am dentist appointment on Monday probably clocked in as one of the speediest ever. He got his teeth checked (no cavities and minimal plaque... Read more →
On Accommodations
19 October 2010
You probably have to squint a bit but yes that is me, at work teaching (ancient Greek) in the classroom. Wanting to make the most... 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 →
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 →
In a public restroom, I was waiting to wash my hands. There were two children at the sink, a boy and a girl, both dark-haired.... Read more →
Hard to read about the father of an autistic child getting punched by another customer in a Boynton Beach (FL) Olive Garden restaurant and not... Read more →
I wrote this post on Care2.com about 20 year-old Bryan Nevins who died last Saturday after being left in a locked minivan by two caretakers... Read more →
The weather here on the East Coast continued to be hot and muggy, the air so heavy that dust particles seemed to be hanging in... Read more →
Today's post brings good news. !!!!! Although, Wednesday didn't start in such an exuberant YAY! fashion. Having written about what a great job Charlie was... Read more →
The new little routine here for the past few days has been: Charlie has woken himself up between 7 and 7.30am, just enough time to... Read more →
Yet another shocker post today. After a full Saturday of walking (x 2), bike riding (x 2), grading (Jim), hauling branches to the town recycling... Read more →
School starts for Charlie at 8.45am but yesterday we weren't in the car until almost 8.30. It takes us around 40 minutes to get to... Read more →