We Go With Him

First, Charlie finished out the last days of his teenage-year decade and opened up the one he'll spend his twenties in with a solid 18... Read more →

Charlie's Winter Break began on Wednesday, December 16th. This is to say, there was no school for 19 days, in (I am quite sure) the... Read more →

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

It's Spring Break for Charlie (no longer for me -- that was last week and a couple of weeks ago and Jim is still on... Read more →

Loading the bikes on the rack on the silver car. Driving over the Bay Bridge through San Francisco to a ball park just south of... Read more →

We certainly did not intend to celebrate Charlie's 17th birthday for three days in a row, especially given his historical need for lowkeying birthdays. But... Read more →

Charlie is now on Spring Break. Hee's been anticipating it for the past three weeks, with a surge of worry this past week (as manifested... Read more →

After posting about permanence and change on a really cold Sunday morning I got on my yellow bike (Charlie's bike when he was about 10)... 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 →

We emerge from Spring Break MMXIII a bit tattered and having put in 20-something mile walk/bike days, and after a two-day onslaught of 'NO SCHOOL... 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 →

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 →

Charlie insisted on a Jersey horse country bike on Christmas Day. We were hesitant after Sunday and he was tired after not sleeping most of... Read more →

Merry Christmas if that is what you celebrate in these ecumenical times! -- Charlie having soundly conked out in the middle of the day after... Read more →

These photos suggest it was just another Sunday bike ride on the Jersey horse country trail. But in reality (what the pictures don't tell), the... 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 →

Thanks to Hurricane Sandy, all the holidays have blurred together. Still working through Halloween candy (much shared with my students) and it rather feels like... Read more →

At zero degrees Celsius (after which, post spring rolls and lasagne, both riders needed to hibernate a bit and I was pleased to find, in... Read more →

Until about 5.30 pm-ish, Charlie handled the holiday and the inevitable disruptions its traditions and rituals impose on his routines and ritualistic nature. He actually... Read more →

Ever grateful that we're all still together (and taking so many 'family portraits' like these!). Wishing you a lovely Thanksgiving! Read more →