Musa, mihi causas memora
06 April 2014
Two bike rides is the standard on our weekends. Saturday, over one bridge to Marin County and then over the Golden Gate to San Francisco... Read more →
Two bike rides is the standard on our weekends. Saturday, over one bridge to Marin County and then over the Golden Gate to San Francisco... 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 →
Well, it's the (drumroll please) big night before Charlie starts at his new school. Kind of ironically, he would have missed quite a bit of... Read more →
I left California 27 years ago. I wanted to figure out what this mysterious place 'back East' was and not be afraid of snow (walking... Read more →
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 →
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 →
As it's just before the ides of November (the 13th), Fall Semester MMXIII is coming to an end. In my class on Greek Tragedy (as... Read more →
Fall-like temperatures (50s degrees Fahrenheit / 13 - 16 degrees Celsius) and Charlie is not at all ready to give up the garb of summer... 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 →
Because of the photo obsession Charlie had when he was younger, we stowed the photos away in boxes in the basement. Because Charlie periodically went... Read more →
Charlie has a lovely new maroon bike! We picked it up after a ride on the Jersey horse country trail was cut short on realizing... Read more →
I texted a student on Friday morning and drove Charlie to school. He had a devil of a time going to sleep the night before,... Read more →
Minus 4 Celsius occasioned a short ride but it is not like anyone else was bike riding. Arctic blast of cold aside, it has been... Read more →
My cousin's kids sent Charlie this très cool gift: A box of paper airplanes! I launched a few for Charlie and handed him one; he... Read more →
'Farm Families' is the name of a game that was one of Charlie's favorites and that he has been saying the phrase at decibel level-volume,... Read more →
It's day four of MMXIII, pridie Nonibus Ianuariis (the day before the Nones of January) --- the 11th day of the 12th month according to... Read more →
There are times when you don't need a yellow jacket (Saturday, Bayonne waterfront). Realities (rain, damp, dirt, gravel, general muck, waning hours of daylight as... Read more →
"Getting sensible about sensory dysfunction" means looking beyond the weighted vests. 'Stuff' is generally not the solution. Read more →
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 →
Charlie woke around 3am on Saturday so, after working through a very agitated run-across-the-floor-sudden-and-fast moment, we were not quite the first at the barber's; among... Read more →