We Go With Him

In my exceedingly humble opinion, we have made it past the midpoint of Charlie's Spring Break reasonably well. Waiting on the windy train platform. Striding... Read more →

I got as close as I ever have last Wednesday night (Jim gone teaching after being home during Spring Break last week) to negotiating Charlie... Read more →

On Friday morning, Charlie woke around 5.45am and he and I went on a walk. After a block and a half, the lights of a... Read more →

(Charlie preparing to bike in Bayonne on Sunday.) So usually I dread daylight saving time and the return to regular time and the clocks changing... Read more →

Anywhere from 4 - 6am seems to be about the term Charlie has been waking up this week and it was so today. He got... Read more →

Writing, many a recommendation letter (once I submit one, another request appears in my email, Hydra-esque-ish, but in a far more positive way!) and posting.... Read more →

Accommodations. A very important word in regard to Charlie's education. A term that tends to be a harbinger of legalese as in 'time to invoke... Read more →

A few snow flurries were falling, but it was the usual scene on a Friday afternoon (after a good and full week of school and... Read more →

After starting his Wednesday shortly after midnight, Charlie got up for the bus at 7.15 am (after a 6.30am walk) and was asleep when it... Read more →

It would be a bit off the mark to say that a week in which one had to call 911 is a good one, but... Read more →

It's day four of MMXIII, pridie Nonibus Ianuariis (the day before the Nones of January) --- the 11th day of the 12th month according to... Read more →

2012; Charlie turned 15 and it was a very good year though given the two ER visits for stitches in the back of his head;... Read more →

You would not know it from this photo,or the amount of physical activity our guy did (4 walks, 21-22-ish miles past the Bayonne Bridge to,... Read more →

Not sure if it even took me 15 minutes to walk from Communipaw to my office off of JFK Boulevard, courtesy of following the Gent... Read more →

So I prefer not to get too political on this blog but I just want to say (for it must be acknoledged, while Charlie alternated... Read more →

Charlie woke around 3am on Saturday so, after working through a very agitated run-across-the-floor-sudden-and-fast moment, we were not quite the first at the barber's; among... Read more →

There's been so much talk around here of the need for things to 'return to normal' that I've reflected on how there really isn't any... Read more →

'Resetting his clock' was how Jim explained us being up last night at 3.30am with Charlie and I'd say that is the best explanation, also... Read more →

Improbably, or maybe not, Charlie and I had a fabulous Monday in which he paced or sat at the front window while I scrubbed the... Read more →

With the countdown towards 'school Monday' fully in operation, it emerged on Saturday that I am not allowed into the kitchen except under the eagle... Read more →