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 →
Daily Life
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 →
Comedy Is Hard
06 November 2014
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 →
Daily Persevering
31 May 2014
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 →
You Were Great Spring Break But Now It's Time To Say Good Bye
26 April 2014
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 →
In Medium Quidquid
23 February 2014
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 →
It was a good 4-day-long-weekend
18 February 2014
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 →
Sebastian
16 February 2014
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 →
3 Days at School and 2 Days at Home and Here Comes Monday
26 January 2014
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 →
Holding Pattern (about the school placement; in motion as ever on those bikes)
11 January 2014
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 →
If Life Gives You an Extra Pie Crust
11 December 2013
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 →
4 Reasons It's Been An Interesting Week
10 October 2013
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 →
Back to the Business
29 September 2013
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 →
99 Percent of the Time
11 July 2013
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 →
News and Not News
02 July 2013
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 →
Doings
11 May 2013
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 →
Jersey Cholly, He Is
08 May 2013
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 →
'Stay Here'
24 April 2013
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 →
Quae Cum Ita Sint
08 April 2013
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 →