We Go With Him

In the midst of a heavy-duty perseveration episode in which Charlie said 'Berkeley' at least once every minute for over 2 hours last night, I... Read more →

Back in Jersey City, Spring Break is starting and, five years ago, I was on my way to Greece for the first time ever. Here... Read more →

Could some of Charlie's extremely over-obsessive behaviors (the blue shirt, the bike stopped at the entrance to a bank) of the past three and a... Read more →

Rather ironically, I finished this Guardian piece on the value of face-to-face interactions in college teaching typing on my laptop across from a student (our... Read more →

The landscape has become a maze of unexpectedness, trees on their sides, power lines pinned by branches and telephone poles, darkness without the traffic signals... Read more →

It's been a great week at school for Charlie plus good afternoons and full nights of sleep Tuesday and Wednesday. Tonight, Thursday, he is just... Read more →

Jim was not due home till 8pm again on Wednesday and I anticipated a more nervous than on Tuesday Charlie, his pattern being (exemplified by... 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 →

So, Charlie got on the bus Monday morning with no issue and had a good day at school, a great bike ride, a last minute... Read more →

While sitting, as I rarely do, in the black chair by Charlie's bed as he tossed and turned, I kept thinking I was on the... Read more →

This is really more of a note to myself. In the midst of routine posting about disablity rights, IDEA, the aftermath of the Arab Spring... Read more →

Who swims in the morning at school, rides bikes in the afternoon, and runs in the evening? Yes, it's Charlie. (Who, despite his full share... 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 →

We would have been in Thessaloniki todayand I would have been visiting with Rozy and her family (hello!) and visiting Pella, the birthplace of Alexander... Read more →

For the past three years in a row, I've woken up in Delphi and looked at the ruins of the temple of Apollo, and of... Read more →

The above photo is a view somewhere on the eastern Peloponnese taken last March while I was in Greece with 9 students from my college.... Read more →

If the first day of Charlie's Spring Break is any indication, it's going to be a break very much like the spring break I passed... Read more →

We went down to the beach yesterday and Charlie and Jim had a splendid, sun-warmed, crosswind blowing, 18 mile bike ride. It was our first... Read more →

Friday was our last day in Athens, usually a day when I've written a sort of summing-up post about the trip and how Charlie fared.... Read more →

The internet in my hotel room here in Athens suddenly stopped working this evening, right as I was updating my phone and starting to write... Read more →