We Go With Him

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 →

I've taken a swerve away from translating Seneca to return to my old friend Virgil and his Bucolica -- "cow poems" -- also known as... Read more →

(Pears Bearing Apples was the title of my dissertation, which I submitted 20 years ago in the Gothic corridors of HGS in the Elm City.... Read more →

Success is a word that has come to stoke degrees of ambivalence in me over the years of raising Charlie. There's no denying that we... Read more →

Charlie's first week back in summer school after three weeks of 'school camp' was tough so --it's time to quote Virgil. facilis descensus Averno: noctes... Read more →

When we talked with Charlie's neurologist about changing his medications, it was suggested that we consider him staying at a certain facility in south Jersey.... Read more →

Can't believe it will be spring break at Jim's and my respective schools the week after next. I'm just a bit behind where I wanted... Read more →

I'll have to ask the resident member of a theology department which term Is more apropos to Charlie in this 2 1/2 week post-camp, pre-school,... Read more →

facilis descensus Averno: noctes atque dies patet atri ianua Ditis; sed reuocare gradum superasque euadere ad auras, hoc opus, hic labor est. ---Virgil, Aeneid, VI.... Read more →

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 →