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 →

I have had the frankly terrible topic of this post about facilitated communication on my mind for the past two weeks and finally wrote something... Read more →

I saw two dolphins jumping out of the ocean, far past the waves, on Friday afternoon. I was looking that far out because Charlie was... Read more →

I just spoke to the director of the swim program through which Charlie has been taking lessons. They don't feel equiped -- as I noted,... Read more →

Charlie's late night sleep on Tuesday (past 1.30am) caught up with him just around the time his swimming lesson started. Not much swimming was done... Read more →

It was all smiles for the most part at Charlie's second swimming lesson, in happy contrast to the first lesson and to his school day.... Read more →

Yesterday for the first time in over a month I had a day to myself at home so, after dropping off Charlie at school (on... Read more →

Charlie's active life continues: he went swimming yesterday morning at school and, as his teacher wrote, spent the whole time in the deep end. There... Read more →

I can't remember the last time that we, who are very much a 'beachy' family, went to the beach. (It was a couple of weeks... Read more →

Out on the bike trail in Jersey horse country (as in, where people have properties with super tasteful and extra large McMansions + an equally... Read more →

Monday we (or at least two-thirds of our tight team o' three) were on the water: and in the water: We are very lucky to... Read more →

The ocean was just as Charlie loves it yesterday: Active. The waves were rough with lots of foam, and big and trough-y, so you could... Read more →

Terribly slow traffic on the Garden State Parkway Sunday meant that it took us almost three hours to get to the beach and so, when... Read more →

Because we've been wanting to bring the kayak back to the beach and, at one of his lectures about On the Irish Waterfront, Jim met... Read more →

After a rainy beach Saturday, we went back down the Garden State Parkway just around noon on Sunday. The weather forecast promised sunshine and meteorologists... Read more →

Looking back over the past week's posts, we've been going a lot to the beach---last Sunday, Tuesday, Wednesday, and Friday and, yes, yesterday, Saturday. Guess... Read more →

In one week, I'm going to Greece with 12 undergraduates, one colleague, and one former student who is fluent in modern (demotic) Greek. We'll be... Read more →

It's a good thing that we lived for two years in St. Paul. The summer we moved into our 2nd floor duplex (in the Merriam-Grove... Read more →

When, around 1.30pm, Charlie appeared in his swimsuit, I figured he was--as he had some days ago--going to make as if he were at the... Read more →

We went swimming at the YMCA today, per Charlie's request. There was one swimmer doing laps and four lifeguards: Charlie prefers the waters to be... Read more →