We Go With Him

Jim and I met twice last week, on successive days, with a psychiatrist in Berkeley for Charlie. We needed two sessions to talk about Charlie.... Read more →

We had a couple of reasons to be hesitant to take Charlie on the ferris wheel ride he’d been asking for this past week. Friday,... Read more →

At some time in the middle of last week it occurred to me to look at Charlie's school calendar, whereupon it hit me that this... Read more →

Charlie is now on Spring Break. Hee's been anticipating it for the past three weeks, with a surge of worry this past week (as manifested... Read more →

It's been raining pretty much non-stop since Friday here. I suspect all this rain (much-needed, given the drought emergency) was a reason for Charlie's week... Read more →

February is from the Latin Februarius, which is from februum which refers to Februa, a purification ritual that fell on February 15 in the old... Read more →

Yes, it is Halloween. No, Charlie is not going trick-or-treating or putting on a costume, having lost his inclination to do those at least seven... 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 →

After bike riding, a search for a church carnival in Bergen county, a round on the Ferris wheel and on the lollipop swing, Charlie pulled... Read more →

As Jim (after relating the happy facts of a Pirate victory) pointed out to me this Sunday morning, it is fall, meaning that the best... Read more →

Charlie had, or perhaps was having for the past several days, a lot of thymic distress that was resolved (in full sense of the Latin... Read more →

Not news first! Charlie stayed up till 5am, spending the night in either a cheerful pacing mood or an intensely hyper pacing mode. (We have... Read more →

A 40+ mile weekend of bike riding, including 1,2,3 rides (2 locals + Bayonne to Jersey City) on Sunday. Yawning at 8pm and up till... Read more →

I didn't realize that there is yet another subtropical storm (named Andrea) on the radar (which is making today, Friday, look distinctly wetter than Wednesday... Read more →

Sometimes all one can do is what I'm doing right now, sit in a corner of the black couch by the front door and watch... Read more →

In anticipation of a visit from my parents, Charlie is having a bout of insomnia, proof that mind can work over matter -- over getting... Read more →

It's been quite a week. Charlie had his own many things to deal with -- for the past several months it often seems that his... Read more →

With the word 'river,' repeatedly uttered, Charlie signaled he wanted a shorter Jersey horse country bike ride than we'd been planning for Saturday morning. In... 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 →