We Go With Him

~Charlie enjoying a not-made-by-me lunch.~ It's been 15 or so years that I have been making and packing lunch for Charlie to eat at school.... Read more →

Hilsdorf 203 (my old office at Saint Peter's) For 8 1/2 years I was the Classics professor at Saint Peter's University in Jersey City. In... Read more →

It's not the story of the year but I have to say, I am very very glad that I am now going on (tagging along?... Read more →

I was fortunate to be a speaker at the BlogHer 2014 Special Needs Mini-Con session on Saturday afternoon with Shannon and Jen at the San... Read more →

Who would have thought, but it has been six months since we packed up our boxes and watched the movers (from a Newark company owned... Read more →

Tuesday we got a few inches of snow and Charlie had a snow day and was home from school so Jim's and my great plans... Read more →

Charlie slept all Sunday night (6pm - 7am) after a no-sleep-night and two 8pm - midnighters. He was balky slow with the bus waiting outside:... Read more →

Charlie has had something of a 'sleep schedule' for the past two (Monday and Tuesday) nights: Asleep at 7/8pm. Awake from 12 midnight on. Between... Read more →

Somewhere amid cleaning up the faithful white car after Charlie's gastro-anxiety got the better of him and driving in Jersey horse country to meet him... Read more →

In the Guardian's Comment Is Free section, Saturday, 6 July: Are they going to take my child away? A rather water-stained photo of Charlie and... Read more →

I stood beside Charlie in line for this very tall 'frog hopper' -- that's what he knows this ride as because the first, much more... Read more →

Courtesy of Bettelheim, it could be said that we mothers of autistic children are the original sh*tty moms -- the discredited refrigerator mother/bad parenting theory... Read more →

It's practically a cliché for me to assert that life with Charlie is quite unlike anything I ever could have imagined before he was born... Read more →

In the great scheme of things, us being in a state of washing-machine-less-ness for something over a month (the repairman came a week and a... Read more →

I am happy to report that the 20-mile-plus (bikes and those long walks) days we did this past weekend resulted in a sufficiently exercised boy... Read more →

Good thing I suggested to Jim to forego going to the gym Friday morning. He and Charlie had clocked in twelve miles on their bikes... Read more →

Charlie has been asking rather a lot to go to various (well, 2) places to get burgers. This happened Tuesday (when it was raining; the... Read more →

On Wedesday night I noted but didn't act quickly enough regarding the (in hindsight) obvious signs of distress Charlie was sending out: asking for Jim... Read more →

I taught my last class of fall semester 2012 on a big wave of emotions. I'd been thinking a lot about Charlie going off to... Read more →

I'll always wish I hadn't thrown his Barney away. When Charlie was 7, it felt that it had to be, because of head-banging occurring along... Read more →