We Go With Him

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 →

Let's see. Let's take a teenager who has a quite rigid sense of how things should be and relies on that not just to stay... Read more →

I find it increasingly am... Read more →

Trooper that he is, Charlie got up to get in the white car on Tuesday and made it through the morning at camp, a rainfall... Read more →

The internet in my hotel room here in Athens suddenly stopped working this evening, right as I was updating my phone and starting to write... Read more →

It's already been a week since Jim dropped me off at Newark airport---and already today we are in the last days of our trip. We... Read more →

In case you are wondering why I am posting photos of myself posed in front of the various sites we are visiting---this is Meteora in... Read more →

We got an early start--6.30am wake-up call, 7.30am breakfast, and 8.30am on the bus. I'm not sure if everyone else would agree with me, but... Read more →

On the seven hour-plus flight from Newark to Frankfurt, I read Paul Offit's Deadly Choices: How the Anti-Vaccine Movement Threatens Us All and watched The... Read more →

For the third night in a row, Charlie struggled to go to sleep. Or rather, he just seemed to have no inclination to sleep at... Read more →

Am packing, yes, as the students, one colleague, and I leave for Greece on Thursday---and am simultaneously planning out how to make a picture schedule... Read more →

Charlie really wanted to go meet Jim at the train last night. Then he insisted on standing on the platform for the New York-bound train,... Read more →

Jim loves to point out to me that, while New Jersey is a small state in terms of its size, one does not have to... Read more →

I've had California on my mind a lot of late. Maybe because it's the holidays and, up until last year, we always went out to... Read more →

We're staying put in a quite literal sense for this Thanksgiving. Charlie does like to be in motion and to go to places but airplane... Read more →

Many of us who travel in what I've sometimes called Autismland know the story "Welcome to Holland." Raising an autistic child is compared to traveling... Read more →

Spend nine days away from Charlie and the boy you come back to: - Has grown a couple of inches, or at least appears to... Read more →

As we've been driving around Greece in our purple bubble-gum colored bus, I've been constantly thinking: What would it be like if Jim and charlie... Read more →

I told Charlie I'd post a photo of my every day on my blog and am afraid I haven't done that due to technology/internet-access issues... Read more →