Cookies, Crayons, and Cookbooks
Keri Horon2022-12-31T17:25:45-08:00As a special needs parent, you just want to get it right. You won’t hit it out of the park all the time. But when you do, it sure feels good. When you go from [...]
Sunflowers and Sunbeams
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:14:45-08:00As I gazed at my son watching the beloved bees on the salvia in our yard, I wondered if what happened earlier played in his mind. There is no way for me to know. As [...]
Mourning Has Arrived
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:21:01-08:00About a week ago, as cases of coronavirus multiplied across the country and social distancing became the new trend, a visitor arrived on my front porch. Unexpected, unannounced, save for the deposit of a tiny [...]
Oh, Sweet Child of Mine
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:26:21-08:00There’s a place off Highway 50, about 45 miles east of Sacramento and 60 miles west of South Lake Tahoe, that is pure gold. Well, pure gold figuratively, but also literally, in the past. Placerville [...]
Of Central Concern
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:28:59-08:00My son is a homing pigeon. As am I. When little, I didn’t know what ‘sense of direction’ meant, but I knew people often said I had a good one. And besides my dimples, my [...]
Bakery Blitz
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:29:31-08:00Teenagers are not always breakfast-loving creatures. Weekday mornings are often chaotic, so a sit-down, well-balanced, post-sleep meal featuring foods from every level of the nutrition pyramid isn’t likely to happen. From about age 15 on, getting [...]
Heading Into Understanding
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:51:25-08:00His eyes fixated on Zach like a lion’s on an antelope. So much so that he didn’t – at first – see my glaring eyes turn toward him. I stepped slowly behind Zach as he [...]
Nobody Nose the Trouble I’ve Seen
Keri Horon2022-12-31T18:58:47-08:00A close inspection of Zach’s nostril, something we don’t habitually do, revealed a reddened area of concern. After a month-long wait to see an ENT, in we went. I had tried to schedule a time [...]
The Point of the Portrait
Keri Horon2022-12-31T19:04:06-08:00When 800 numbers show up in caller ID, I ignore them. But one day recently, as a message was recording, I heard a voice say my son’s name, so I picked up. It was a [...]
Why I Must Live Forever
Keri Horon2022-12-31T19:23:39-08:00This happens all the time. Every setting, different people, but mostly at school. And I don’t blame anybody; how could those not around him all the time know?? […]