Starfish Country
Keri Horon2021-08-10T15:50:13-07:00Pacing pausing Numb impatience While heat beat down Asphalt earth below my shoes You Shoeless Stood barred behind chainlink […]
Rooting for Zach
Keri Horon2021-07-29T15:02:19-07:00“Look at that,” she said. “It’s bad. It probably needs to come out.” My stomach lurched. Out? Needing to remain calm for him, I anchored my feet and took a deep breath. Zach was [...]
Elsa
Keri Horon2021-04-15T23:21:52-07:00When Walt Disney Pictures released their 53rd animated feature film, Frozen, in 2013, we pretty much ignored it. I was intrigued by the connection to Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tale "The Snow Queen," but not [...]
Don’t Give Me the Finger!
Keri Horon2021-03-09T12:18:43-08:00As I raised the blinds in my son’s bedroom the other morning, I noticed his arm stretch out from beneath the blanket. His sleepy eyes looked at me – rather, at my clothes – and [...]
Zipping Through Milestones
Keri Horon2021-03-08T15:12:43-08:00Milestones. One might say these are roadside markers measuring distance. Another might think of significant events in life: a graduation, the start of a new job. And still others may define milestones in the context [...]
No More Taters, Tot!
Keri Horon2021-02-20T13:38:13-08:00Going to the grocery store became a highly preferred activity for my son when he was younger. It was surprising, because he experienced difficulties in places that were too bright, too loud, too chaotic. We [...]
If At First You Don’t Succeed…
Keri Horon2021-02-20T13:19:35-08:00(First appeared on VestLife blog) The other day, my son and I were in a store, and he was helping the cashier by putting our items in a bag. One slipped. The clerk said, “Ooops! [...]
Sequins and Sharks
Keri Horon2021-02-06T12:15:44-08:00(Originally appeared on the VestLife blog) It feels like yesterday, but it wasn’t. My son and I were doing some browsing around at a San Francisco shopping plaza. It looked like rain was coming, so [...]
Sharing Some Sun on Groundhog Day
Keri Horon2021-02-02T20:49:37-08:00“Then put your little hand in mine…there ain’t no hill or mountain we can’t climb…Babe, I got you babe…I got you babe…” As the black alarm clock on the white doily flipped to 6:00 A.M., [...]
How an Apple Changed the IEP
Keri Horon2021-01-30T23:51:14-08:00It can take the strength of a weightlifter to haul documents, books, and a laptop from one’s car to an IEP meeting. That particular Individualized Educational Plan meeting for my then 10-year-old son was pivotal [...]