Valleys and Mountains
16 August 2013
As I type this, Charlie's summer camp is set to end in less than an hour. The last day's activity is a party complete with... Read more →
As I type this, Charlie's summer camp is set to end in less than an hour. The last day's activity is a party complete with... Read more →
So. Charlie had his simply Best. ESY. Ever. Nary a call from the behaviorist and a nice post-final-ESY-bus ride afterwards. Then. 3 behavior storms (in... Read more →
Charlie just polished off a rather large post-midnight snack about an hour and a half ago. He napped earlier in the day after a walk... Read more →
Advocacy. It's all about fighting the power, to me. Or, fighting the orthodoxy and authoritarianism, as the case may be. Or the hypocrisy -- the... Read more →
Were I 20 years younger, I would be taking the train into NYC today to be at this. 20 years ago it was 1992 and... Read more →
Summer is not over yet and you never know what can happen but Wednesday the 15th of August was probably one of the best of... Read more →
Trooper that he is, Charlie got up to get in the white car on Tuesday and made it through the morning at camp, a rainfall... Read more →
August allergies and the return of the nasty skin infection on his left cheek meant Charlie downed a fuller panoply than usual of pills (antibiotic,... Read more →
I'm happy to say that, on the camp front, day 2 was great, even though it was raining (down pouring) the whole 3 hours Charlie... Read more →
Perhaps someday we might rock the transitions rather than have rocky ones. Charlie slept through the night Tuesday, after a series of nights of disordered... Read more →
' No camp' was the word from Charlie on Friday morning; he instead asked to go out to Jersey horse country and cast us his... Read more →
A 2am wake-up on Thursday, unpacking the bag with his swimsuit and towel, some strong no's at the mention of 'camp': Via all these, Charlie... Read more →
We had thought we'd pick up Charlie at 2pm from camp on Wednesday but a call from his counselor at 12.30 led to us getting... Read more →
Charlie started Tuesday morning by getting dressed in his swimsuit, putting the boogie board in the back of the white car, and telling us 'no... Read more →
Charlie's first day ever of day camp went quite well. It's been a long time since we left him with anyone besides his teachers at... Read more →