My thought was we would do what we did last time, get through about half the puzzle and call it a day. Charlie's day program... Read more →
Ocean
Feels Like We're On Vacation
16 March 2014
Three, four or was it more years ago we stopped taking vacations. We've never been inclined to go to any of the Disney parks; our... Read more →
Basically We Now Live Beside the Ocean
02 February 2014
We stopped taking vacatio... Read more →
Once More To The Lighthouse
16 December 2013
Charlie and I are minding the midnight oil here (he's got Barney on his iPad, I've got Catullus and some writing work) as not only... 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 →
No, I Do Not Work For the New Jersey Tourism Board
19 July 2013
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 →
A Little Return To the Beach
06 July 2013
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 →
After the Storm and Into the Wind
11 February 2013
The title has a metaphorical as well as a literal application, Charlie having had an 'attack' with throwing of multiple plastic items, hitting his head... Read more →
We Dwell In Paradoxcity
02 February 2013
It would be a bit off the mark to say that a week in which one had to call 911 is a good one, but... Read more →
Pleasure and Pain: The Box of Routine, the Beach Isn't the Same
20 January 2013
When you're expecting to see this and this and this at the beach and you see (as we did on Saturday) this -- -- pretty... Read more →
Windblown and Watery But Not Winded
28 December 2012
Of course the day we made it back to the beach (I think it has been almost a year's hiatus?), Charlie excited and tentative but... Read more →
Clearly We Lead a Charmed Life
31 October 2012
After a bike ride, we went to see if the Mexican fast food place was open and were not surprised that it was not due... Read more →
Storm Outside Not Inside
29 October 2012
Aside from continually checking the charge on Charlie's iPad and my phone lest we lose electricity, and iterating and reiterating what a great boy he... Read more →
Scrubbing It Out
07 October 2012
After what was probably his fastest-ever 16-mile ride on the Jersey horse country bike path ever, Charlie came home and slept for three hours. When... Read more →
Jesso, 'NO HOME,' Full Moon, 'JERSEY'
30 September 2012
After Charlie slept from 8 -- 11 am on Saturday, he and Jim did 16 miles at a manic pace. Oddly, Charlie did not want... Read more →
So (For Now) We Go No More to the Ocean
01 July 2012
As Charlie and I were on the second of three walks in malevolently hot weather so that he ran in spurts growling and unintentionally gave... Read more →
49 Mile Weekend
19 February 2012
I know I've been saying we are all coughing away. We are, but somehow we seem unable to stay away from our usual activities, i.e.,... Read more →
39 Mile Weekend: February Record
05 February 2012
We went down to the beach where Charlie and Jim did 18 good miles. On the way home, Charlie started and suddenly grabbed Jim's arm... Read more →
Back to the Beach With Bikes
22 January 2012
I think it was July or sometime in August that we last went to the beach. Whether because the waves were not as he wanted... Read more →
'Heard melodies are sweet, but those unheard / Are sweeter'
20 December 2011
It's blurry, but can your see that Charlie is smiling in this photo? He woke up at midnight on Monday night. And he went back... Read more →