We Go With Him

I feel like such a Luddite but I really do prefer actual, real, physical, tangible, can-mark-with-a-pencil-or-pen, paper books. For teaching languages, an e-book is dreadfully... Read more →

We are reading a book called Epitaph For a Peach in my Basic Skills English class. It recounts the season in and season out work... Read more →

I am having too much fun, and obviously staying up too late, considering what books to buy Charlie. i found some glorious pop-ups and the... 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 →

Charlie say on the blue couch next to me at 10.45pm and asked for something to drink and some crackers. We did type B ocean... Read more →

I really wanted to go into New York on Wednesday to attend this autism symposium as a friend was speaking and the program looked intriguing.... Read more →

Sunday morning, Jim and Charlie biked 11 miles with an uphill start in Jersey horse country under a gray sky. In the afternoon, they did... Read more →

The majority of the books you see are mine. They have been stacked in piles in a corner of our dining room since April, when... Read more →

There's a little memorial to a mother of a child on the autism spectrum, Clara Claiborne Park, over at Care2.com by me. Park's 2002 book,... Read more →

I told Charlie I'd post a photo of my every day on my blog and am afraid I haven't done that due to technology/internet-access issues... Read more →

Variations of the above scene---Charlie in fine run/walk form round our neighborhood---occurred morning (6am), afternoon (3.30pm), and night (8pm) on Monday, with Jim bringing up... Read more →

It's here! Gravity Pulls You In: Perspectives on Parenting Children on the Autism Spectrum, edited by Kyra Anderson and Vicki Forman, just published by Woodbine... Read more →

One of my cousins had a little girl over a year ago. He sends me photos and updates about her regularly and I am (finally,... Read more →

No, I could not resist that title----read Mark Haddon's novel some five years ago, and still remember it down to its details. Dogs figure significantly... Read more →

Jim and I thought taking Charlie to see Where the Wild Things Are would be a good thing to do on a very, very rainy... Read more →

Another night, another book talk for Jim (at Words bookstore in Maplewood), another event for Charlie to attend. Charlie and I had dinner in a... Read more →