We Go With Him

~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 →

Did I say we are gratissimi ('very/utmost/the most grateful' -- Latin, superlative of gratus) for quite a lot? Read more →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →

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 →