We Go With Him

I probably check the weather in New Jersey more than I do for Berkeley out of deeply-ingrained habit (and because Berkeley weather changes little from... Read more →

Jim misses his pals, Jersey storytellers and real pizza (ok, we have located one place that makes a fair pie). Charlie misses his classmates from... Read more →

Courtesy of a meteorological phenomenon known as the Pineapple Express, Charlie has a Rain Day and is off from school. Exactly a year ago, he... Read more →

November 26, 2013, northern New Jersey, in just-above-freezing weather that many people would be wearing a parka, not a sweatjacket, in. November 23, 2013, somewhere... 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 →

It's not yet winter and Charlie has had a snow day, it's snowing today (he hasn't been on his bike since Tuesday) and it's supposed... Read more →

It started with just a few flurries. Five miles later, it was definitely snowing. Biking once in this very place a few years ago, Charlie... Read more →

There's Moore's Law and there's Murphy's Law and I wouldn't quite say it is Charlie's Law that the only time he requests that I sync,... 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 →

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 →

It is hot. Given the state of the climate-changed world, it is, though, not a surprise that it has already been over 90 degrees while... Read more →

A performer Charlie is not -- I think he only sang the last bar of one verse of 'Sidewalks of New York' loud enough for... Read more →

No, I do not mean to imply that climate change causes autism. Climage change is real, autism is real and the temperature (with barometric pressure... Read more →

Anywhere from 4 - 6am seems to be about the term Charlie has been waking up this week and it was so today. He got... Read more →

Did 5 of the above yesterday, post-Nemo. Also a lot of driving around and rather a lot of sleeping and eating (what you're supposed to... Read more →

2012; Charlie turned 15 and it was a very good year though given the two ER visits for stitches in the back of his head;... 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 →