We Go With Him

Remember how I went to every private autism school in New Jersey and a few more to spare and we moved in with Jim's parents... Read more →

Just ask Jim: I am not politically minded and grateful he watches the election coverage (Presidential debates, Vice-Presidential debates, post-debate-analysis etc.) routinely and with a... Read more →

I probably check the weather in New Jersey more than I do for Berkeley out of deeply-ingrained habit (and because Berkeley weather changes little from... Read more →

November 26, 2013, northern New Jersey, in just-above-freezing weather that many people would be wearing a parka, not a sweatjacket, in. November 23, 2013, somewhere... Read more →

I knew Jim would get at least a little Jersey-sick out here. Nobody was ever so quick to identify himself as being from the Garden... Read more →

This is the what I see (the Golden Gate Bridge, Marin County) while I'm waiting on the BART platform weekday mornings to begin my approximately... Read more →

Let's see. Let's take a teenager who has a quite rigid sense of how things should be and relies on that not just to stay... Read more →

After a tearful start (Charlie has had the same teacher for the past three years and he is superb), Charlie had a happy, peaceful-easy feeling... Read more →

Could some of Charlie's extremely over-obsessive behaviors (the blue shirt, the bike stopped at the entrance to a bank) of the past three and a... 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 →

On some post on vaccines or some contentious topic that I once wrote, someone left a comment about me being too upbeat about life raising... Read more →

Monday in Jersey horse country. Tuesday on the D&R Canal. Wednesday in Bayonne and Jersey City. Thursday by the Delaware River, half of it in... Read more →

Aside from the fact that it hasn't been this hot here for this many days in the Garden State since 1993, New Jersey is a... Read more →

Charlie, as many of you know, has a longstanding, all-consuming love of the beach and swimming in ocean waves that is accompanied by a commensurately... Read more →

School ends next week for Charlie. He has had a few more incident reports in the past few weeks than he has for much of... 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 →

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 →

After starting his Wednesday shortly after midnight, Charlie got up for the bus at 7.15 am (after a 6.30am walk) and was asleep when it... Read more →

Clearly this is turning into another of those bike odyssey vacations -- Friday, Charlie in-sisted that he and Jim do the full 16 miles of... 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 →