Our Daily Amusements
28 March 2013
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 →
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 →