I feel like such a Luddite but I really do prefer actual, real, physical, tangible, can-mark-with-a-pencil-or-pen, paper books. For teaching languages, an e-book is dreadfully... Read more →
iPad
Tech Is An Ancient Greek Word After All
24 December 2014
Now Google Glass is getting into the take-technology-and-develop-it-for-autistic-children market. The apps a company is making are for "children with moderate to high-functioning autism, though it... Read more →
Musings About Some Laws of the Universe
06 December 2013
There's Moore's Law and there's Murphy's Law and I wouldn't quite say it is Charlie's Law that the only time he requests that I sync,... 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 →
21st Century Motherhood Looks Like This
19 August 2013
I spent quite a few hours last night syncing, downloading, uploading, after Charlie deleted all the music from his iPad. He does that periodically on... Read more →
EEG Success!
13 March 2013
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 →
A Big Wind Clears the Sky
17 February 2013
That's a view of the Meadowlands from the NJ Turnpike going south, around noon on a morning when the wind was so strong Jim and... Read more →
Bit Of Beach Blast
22 January 2013
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 →
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 →
Not that you need to hear this but, head-banging is about as funny as 'retard' to us
04 October 2012
We just got through one of those begins-with-whacking-the-corner-of-the-iPad on the bedroom wall storms, though several degrees less bad than the one Charlie had the night... Read more →
Teaching is all about the spontaneity
03 October 2012
As the above photo attests, it was a good day in my classroom even though we had no AV. I didn't realize the previously broken... Read more →
I Do Like the #FailWhale
04 September 2012
Summer is not technically over but the start of school for Charlie on Wednesday means it is. He had managed his anxiety so well through... Read more →
Praises Be
01 September 2012
Four nights before the first day of school, as signalled by talking more than usual about my parents and (Uncle) Rocco and Portia (the dog),... Read more →
iPad Experimentation (of a Safe Kind)
01 September 2012
I looked at Charlie's iPad last night and realized that the icons for his music albums were all jumbled up. And, at least one-third were... Read more →
Tiny Bubbles, Yeah Right
15 July 2012
Every caper has its coda. Due to the dousing of water Charlie gave his iPad, and my taking its case apart to dry it off,... Read more →
On the Couch
12 July 2012
After the bike ride and dinner and at least one walk Charlie has commenced on a new little ritual, settling on the old beat-up blue... Read more →
The New Thing We Do
01 June 2012
I think I've lost track of how many combinations of 'Teletubbies' plus '[word]' I've been dreaming up for Charlie to type. Read more →
Actually Typing B
31 May 2012
A significant change in the barometric pressure made for much more easeful bike riding, walking and generally being on Wednesday. After a walk (which involved... Read more →
Typing in His Very Charlie Way
27 May 2012
Amid bike riding (22 miles on Sunday for a 50 miles weekend), walking, pacing, stomping in certain areas of the house where the floor has... Read more →
Motherhood #fail #maybenot
22 April 2012
To the best of our knowledge, Charlie did not sleep at all on Saturday night. He listened to music, paced in his room and the... Read more →