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 →
Holidays
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 →
What We're Doing On the 4th, 5th and 6th
04 July 2014
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 →
Three Days of Birthday and Then Back to Business
18 May 2014
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 →
Finally, Spring Break
19 April 2014
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 →
The Blue Shirt Saga
28 November 2013
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 →
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 →
Boy. On. Bus.
01 April 2013
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 →
Our Daily Amusements
28 March 2013
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 →
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 →
Take Two
26 December 2012
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 →
One Good Read Deserves Another
24 December 2012
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 →
Agitation Sunday
24 December 2012
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 →
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 →
Malum Malum (the evil iPad; a sort of theological post)
08 December 2012
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 →
Thanksgiving Weekend Summed Up
26 November 2012
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 →
How a Boy of His Own Rituals Managed on a Day of National Ritual
22 November 2012
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 →
Gratitude
21 November 2012
Ever grateful that we're all still together (and taking so many 'family portraits' like these!). Wishing you a lovely Thanksgiving! Read more →