First, Charlie finished out the last days of his teenage-year decade and opened up the one he'll spend his twenties in with a solid 18... Read more →
Poetry
A Different (and Very Excellent) Way to Spend a Saturday Afternoon
27 July 2014
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 →
A Boy Of All Seasons
24 November 2013
It's -3 Celsius today so Charlie is poised to show that, yes, he did spend some formative years in St. Paul, Minnesota (from 1998-2000 --... Read more →
How a Boy of His Own Rituals Managed on a Day of National Ritual
22 November 2012
Until about 5.30 pm-ish, Charlie handled the holiday and the inevitable disruptions its traditions and rituals impose on his routines and ritualistic nature. He actually... Read more →
That Here We Pace
25 October 2012
Jim was not due home till 8pm again on Wednesday and I anticipated a more nervous than on Tuesday Charlie, his pattern being (exemplified by... Read more →
Letting Go of the Albatross, or Trying To
15 October 2012
Rain and a good soaking mean nothing: Charlie and Jim ride bikes. That's what you have to do when life gives you rain; a handtruck... Read more →
The Cruelest Month
27 July 2012
Pace TS Eliot, August is the cruelest month in our household. Charlie has a week and a half more of summer school and then 7... Read more →
On a Long Night, and After Many Many Years, Lattimore
02 July 2012
One day off from summer school which just began for the fourth of July on Wednesday. My parents due to arrive on Saturday. Summer heat... Read more →
Inversion
09 June 2012
In the direct inverse of his going to sleep at 3am on Thursday morning, Charlie woke up at 3am on Friday morning. He wanted an... Read more →
The More Talk About Poetry and Autism, The Better
26 April 2012
I really wanted to go into New York on Wednesday to attend this autism symposium as a friend was speaking and the program looked intriguing.... Read more →
Orality and Literacy and the Homeric Question
25 March 2012
This is really more of a note to myself. In the midst of routine posting about disablity rights, IDEA, the aftermath of the Arab Spring... Read more →
Permanence in Change
09 January 2012
"Permanence in Change" is the English translation of "Dauer im Wechsel," a poem by the German Romantic poet Johann Wolfgang von Goethe -- and permanence... 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 →
Sometimes You Just Need Wordsworth
18 December 2011
And then came the lag on Sunday, after navigating through experiences novel and not so easy. It was also 28 degrees on Sunday morning and... Read more →
Into the Pastoral Landscape
13 September 2011
Virgil, Eclogue I Meliboeus Tityrus, you recline beneath a beech's spreading shade, and practice at the woodland Muse upon your meagre reed, we are leaving... Read more →
We Like March
28 February 2011
And I love Emily Dickinson: WE like March, his shoes are purple, He is new and high; Makes he mud for dog and peddler, Makes... Read more →
No Ideas But In Things
08 February 2011
Back in action, we are. Charlie was slow to get up and out of bed after a couple of days' hiatus from school (plus that... Read more →
I have added a list of blog-friends, Fellow Travelers & Commadres in Autismland, over in the right sidebar-->. I linked to some of your blogs... Read more →
I've been doing some blog upkeep/redesign and letting my inner geek indulge itself. I changed the banner photo from this to this and have been... Read more →
Yesterday morning I read my last exams and papers for the spring semester and posted my grades. I had taken the train in for a... Read more →