Dreamy Blessings
Keri Horon2026-06-10T16:25:43-07:00Recently, I had an unusual dream. Not that I’d describe other dreams I have as usual. But once in a while a dream flies in on a REM breeze and just perches in your brain, [...]
Good Will Trees
Keri Horon2025-12-09T13:10:51-08:00Good Will Trees by Keri Horon The doors slid wide open fluorescent lights beamed blue carts floated by a baby then screamed Shoppers were busy cashiers super stressed the bins piled high the floors [...]
Gourd Grief!
Keri Horon2025-11-26T14:54:51-08:00For more than half the year, pumpkins of every size, shape, and color live on my front porch. They arrive in late September and stay ’til their condition warrants a sneaky, middle-of-the-night visit to the [...]
Aisle Sit This One Out
Keri Horon2025-10-03T19:54:25-07:00Remember the excitement of knowing, upon waking up on a beautiful morning during summer break, that you were going to go to an amusement park that day? The butterflies in your stomach as you thought [...]
Dragon/Your Feet
Keri Horon2025-09-08T14:30:03-07:00The dog days of summer arrived. “Dog days of summer,” it turns out, has nothing to do with canines lying around to beat the heat; the expression comes from the ancient Greeks who believed that [...]
Under the Weather
Keri Horon2025-03-16T21:51:06-07:00My eyelids opened to a semi-dark room which made me think it was earlier than my usual wake-up time. It wasn’t, though. Slate gray clouds were pouring out rain; I could hear the drainpipes working [...]
Pick a PEC
Keri Horon2025-01-13T19:01:29-08:00Of pickled peppers? Nope. There’s no connection here to the pepper-picking piper. The PEC I am pondering focuses on picture cards. These picture cards posed as the primary form of communication for Zach for a [...]
Beautiful~Butterfly~Boy
Keri Horon2024-09-26T11:38:44-07:00I can’t recall exactly when Zach began noticing butterflies. It’s a love affair that’s been going on for quite a while now. It may have started after the bees. During the lockdowns in 2020 and [...]
When One Door Opens
Keri Horon2024-06-13T13:46:49-07:00It was a blistering hot day soon after we moved from the Bay Area to the Central Valley. The Mediterranean climate of the Bay is something I was grateful for during the 20+ years we [...]
sun * son * Son
Keri Horon2024-01-27T15:30:43-08:00One foggy morning a few years ago, after I dropped Zach off at his beloved school, I decided to do the coffee shop + laptop thing. I have to admit, I was not in the [...]