We Go With Him

My thought was we would do what we did last time, get through about half the puzzle and call it a day. Charlie's day program... Read more →

I used often to link this post on writing about difficult things aka It’s the End of the World as We Know It and have... Read more →

Tonight I went to the penultimate lecture on Aristophanes by the professor with whom I took what I'm realizing was a more-influential-than-I-thought-at-the-time translation course while... Read more →

Charlie got through the long Memorial Day weekend with a total of 6 bike rides (3 on the Peninsula, 3 in Berkeley; 1 with Cousin... Read more →

Though it was raining on Friday, and though a tractor trailer jacknifed across the freeway closing down all lanes north of the Carquinez Bridge (leading... Read more →

Obviously Charlie has been riding bikes with Jim (at least 55 miles this weekend; rain is expected at the end of this week -- Charlie... Read more →

I only had to leave two voice mails with Charlie's pediatric neurologist in New Jersey to get a prescription refilled. Yay. Charlie asked me to... Read more →

As I was running back down from the Berkeley hills, I saw a woman in UC Berkeley sweats walking a beagle. I veered across the... Read more →

It was a given that this would be a challenging week for Charlie, who started at his new school last Wednesday. Tuesday night he didn't... Read more →

We are in that part of the Special Education Life that could be called 'holding pattern.' A school has been found. We saw the school.... Read more →

Tuesday we got a few inches of snow and Charlie had a snow day and was home from school so Jim's and my great plans... Read more →

It's been an interesting week. (Though, truth be told, it's always interesting in one way or another around here.) 1. It's been a buscapade week... Read more →

Down but not out. (Boxing metaphors do often seem highly apropos with Charlie-shenanigans, I must say.) Read more →

After bike riding, a search for a church carnival in Bergen county, a round on the Ferris wheel and on the lollipop swing, Charlie pulled... Read more →

Wednesday was one of those Autismland Conumdrum days when, for the second day in a row (such is New Jersey traffic), the bus driver was... Read more →

Not news first! Charlie stayed up till 5am, spending the night in either a cheerful pacing mood or an intensely hyper pacing mode. (We have... Read more →

Looking over this blog and my Instagram feed and Flickr account it did become apparent to me that practically all of my photos show Charlie... Read more →

Since January, Charlie has had exactly one incident at school, a statistic all the more notable when you consider the amount of heavy-duty anxiety and... Read more →

From the moment he stepped off the bus on Wednesday, Charlie was on the hustle to go out, get out, get in the white car,... Read more →

I am happy to report that the 20-mile-plus (bikes and those long walks) days we did this past weekend resulted in a sufficiently exercised boy... Read more →