~Charlie enjoying a not-made-by-me lunch.~ It's been 15 or so years that I have been making and packing lunch for Charlie to eat at school.... Read more →
Food and Drink
Did I say we are gratissimi ('very/utmost/the most grateful' -- Latin, superlative of gratus) for quite a lot? Read more →
'No Ferris Wheel'
06 July 2014
After a fine bike ride down the Peninsula on Sunday, we dropped off the bikes at home and drove back across the bay to the... Read more →
Words Don't Always Mean What They Mean
14 October 2013
A three-day weekend (for what I can only refer to as Indigenous Peoples' Day) calls for three straight days of riding on the Jersey country... Read more →
Negotiating. And Ketchup
21 March 2013
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 →
I Don't Do Burgers
21 February 2013
Charlie has been asking rather a lot to go to various (well, 2) places to get burgers. This happened Tuesday (when it was raining; the... Read more →
Four Day Weekend (Less One Day)
16 February 2013
Charlie has a four-day weekend due to Presidents Day on Monday, a bit of a double disruption as it means one school week is cut... Read more →
Alleviated
02 January 2013
Awakened by merry-making just as the new year began on Tuesday, Charlie and I noted each of the first six hours of 2013, 1.35, 2.15,... Read more →
Christmas Planning
18 December 2012
Who eat's at McDonald's on Christmas? asks Business Week as if such a notion should be so ludicrous, if not horrendous. I am repelled by... Read more →
In Mid-November
15 November 2012
Great day at school, bike ride, more uneasy (but not 'on edge') on Thursday evening. But maybe Charlie having woken at 4am-ish, helped himself to... Read more →
Radix Malorum
15 November 2012
Radix malorum non cupiditas est (quod ille ignoscens in fabulis Canterburiensibus Chauceronis dicit) sed Pisces Suecici. In other words, the reason (on top of post-hurricane-ness... Read more →
With no familiar haunts (school, fast food Mexican place) open -- I mean, it could be plenty worse, some 2 million people in New Jersey... Read more →
Feast and Famine
11 October 2012
On an evening Wednesday walk with Charlie, I realized I was wearing exactly the same clothes I had on when I traveled last to Greece... Read more →
When Disney Is a Warning Sign
31 July 2012
To the unschooled, the progress that someone (this would be Charlie, who had a good school day on Monday though he was very tired) has... Read more →
Autism and McDonalds
18 May 2012
Clearly exercise is a big part of life for Charlie aka "Mr. 24 Miles on a Friday" (he and Jim are readying to go on... Read more →
A Horse Rider, A Pit Bull and the Wrong Kind of Chow Fun
29 April 2012
Despite three unsettling events on Sunday, Charlie kept his cool (though a little lag is always possible). On the bike path in Jersey horse country... Read more →
Another Wednesday Has Come and Gone
25 April 2012
Wednesday has been decidedly unpopular around here as it's the day Jim teaches all day. Meaning that (taking a more Charliesque view of things), it... Read more →
The Sour Taste of Nostalgia
21 April 2012
Since Jim and Charlie started doing their long (11 1/2 mile) local bike rides (Jim remeasured the distance), they have been in the vicinity of... Read more →
Exploits, Small in Scale
16 March 2012
It only occurred to me after he had gone to sleep, but Charlie did not say 'burrito' once on Friday, after perseverating hard about that... Read more →
Spring Break Day iv Date Lunch
15 March 2012
Jim and I had lunch Thursday at a hamburger stand we used often to eat at with Charlie. For whatever reason -- noise, smells, his... Read more →