We Go With Him

People in Missouri are wearing disguises to get a Covid-19 vaccine, according to the New York Times. Charlie got his second Pfizer vaccine in February... Read more →

And the next day, we did the other kind of riding into a 23 mph wind. Read more →

Jim misses his pals, Jersey storytellers and real pizza (ok, we have located one place that makes a fair pie). Charlie misses his classmates from... Read more →

You should have seen the look on Jim's face when I told him that the U.S. and Cuba will restore diplomatic relations. He is a... Read more →

Courtesy of a meteorological phenomenon known as the Pineapple Express, Charlie has a Rain Day and is off from school. Exactly a year ago, he... Read more →

November 26, 2013, northern New Jersey, in just-above-freezing weather that many people would be wearing a parka, not a sweatjacket, in. November 23, 2013, somewhere... Read more →

Me bringing up the rear behind Jim and Charlie on bike rides is still something of a novelty. They ride side by side in a... Read more →

When Jim taught 6-year-old Charlie to ride a bike, we never thought he and Charlie would do, as they have so far, 35,000 miles (plus).... Read more →

Who would have thought, but it has been six months since we packed up our boxes and watched the movers (from a Newark company owned... Read more →

After picking me up from BART and on the way uphill to my parents' house, Charlie turned on a few songs from the Beach Boys,... Read more →

"Peak" is the latest new word to have entered Charlie's vocabulary and no wonder, living as we are now at the foot of the Berkeley... Read more →

I knew Jim would get at least a little Jersey-sick out here. Nobody was ever so quick to identify himself as being from the Garden... Read more →

This is the what I see (the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin County) while I'm waiting on the BART platform weekday mornings to begin my approximately... Read more →

Two bike rides is the standard on our weekends. Saturday, over one bridge to Marin County and then over the Golden Gate to San Francisco... Read more →

It occurs to me that if you read only the most recent posts of this blog, you'd think Charlie does little other than ride his... Read more →

From the McDonalds in Millbrae, Charlie and Jim went down El Camino Real (the name smacks of the conquistadors but it's all suburban commerce in... Read more →

Three, four or was it more years ago we stopped taking vacations. We've never been inclined to go to any of the Disney parks; our... Read more →

It took almost two months, but the silver car we got after trading in our much used and loved black and white cars to a... Read more →

It's February 25 so we've been in California a full two months, 75 inches of snow have fallen in New Jersey and Charlie's IEP is... Read more →