I used to think that every birthday for Charlie would be increasingly difficult for me to wrap my thoughts around. Starting a long time ago,... Read more →
For the record, I have a black rain jacket and I do not, like the rest of our family unit, wear size large. 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 →
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 →
And the next day, we did the other kind of riding into a 23 mph wind. Read more →
IPP supported living supported employment independent living direct support a "quality management process" (as compared to the usual "quality assurance") self-determination legacy homes integrated communities... Read more →
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 →
There have been times when, on looking over the photos I have been posting during my time on the Internets, I have realized it looks... Read more →
I've taken a swerve away from translating Seneca to return to my old friend Virgil and his Bucolica -- "cow poems" -- also known as... Read more →
It's Charlie's last day of school today and, as he is technically in the 12th grade ("technically" as Charlie, since his first days in a... Read more →
25 years ago, I graduated from college in central New Jersey, never thinking a double sawbuck and a fiver's worth of years later that, after... Read more →
It happened that the date for Charlie's school prom this year fell on his 18th birthday so, after white cake/white frosting mini-cupcakes (many) at school,... Read more →
We seem to be heralding Charlie's turning 18 next week by familiarizing ourselves (working through voice mail trees, sitting in beige-themed agency waiting rooms, realizing... Read more →
We went to the Open House at Charlie's school last week and were pleased to see his colored-in picture of a chick (Easter having been... Read more →
We are reading a book called Epitaph For a Peach in my Basic Skills English class. It recounts the season in and season out work... 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 →