We Go With Him

Jim and Charlie are walking to the psychiatrist's office in the photo on a street that reminds me of why I love Berkeley so much.... Read more →

Jim and I met twice last week, on successive days, with a psychiatrist in Berkeley for Charlie. We needed two sessions to talk about Charlie.... Read more →

It just occurred to me that in the six months plus that we've now been in California, we haven't once been to the ER, which... Read more →

Wednesday was one of those Autismland Conumdrum days when, for the second day in a row (such is New Jersey traffic), the bus driver was... Read more →

With the word 'river,' repeatedly uttered, Charlie signaled he wanted a shorter Jersey horse country bike ride than we'd been planning for Saturday morning. In... Read more →

Charlie's EEG showed abnormal brain activity. At a meeting Thursday afternoon with Jim and me, the neurologist and the nurse talked about what they saw... Read more →

I just wanted to note that Charlie, after pulling off the cap of electrodes and crying, sat for at least 20 more minutes to get... Read more →

It's kind of been Anxiety Central around here (a Monday holiday, winter weather and chilly bike rides, dad 'n' mom back to teaching and running... Read more →

While signing Charlie, on the Friday of a curious week, in at the school office after he quote unquote 'did the best ever' at the... Read more →

Despite the fact that it was early Tuesday morning with Thanksgiving on the horizon, I taught both my Latin and ancient Greek students a host... Read more →

It was a beautiful warm November day and Charlie and Jim had a lovely bike ride in the morning and looked forward to a long... Read more →

It's been 8 bike rides for a total of 60 miles since Friday for Jim and Charlie. 5 1/2 hours of me waiting in line... Read more →

Charlie was up till 4am on Friday, slept perhaps till just before 10am and then it was a day of constant exercise -- 23 or... Read more →

Charlie was up till 3.30am Friday night but as he wasn't shoveling in scores of frozen French fries as on the previous two nights, and... 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 →

Charlie just polished off a rather large post-midnight snack about an hour and a half ago. He napped earlier in the day after a walk... Read more →

Friday found Charlie sleeping and stimming plenty but not as much, quite, and a doctor's visit reveled no sores in his mouth or some such.... Read more →

I think It may have been around 7am Thursday morning when Charlie actually slept after the to-do of Wednesday. He was out until 2pm, stayed... Read more →

St. Simeon Stylites on his pillar and those hermits and monks who withdrew into desert spaces or mountaintop caves for Contemplation in Silence: Just as... Read more →

August allergies and the return of the nasty skin infection on his left cheek meant Charlie downed a fuller panoply than usual of pills (antibiotic,... Read more →