Just last weekend, I was soaking my tired feet in my brother’s swimming pool during my niece’s high school graduation party, when a younger sister party goer swam right up to me. “I just love parties at Greg and Holly’s,” she quipped to me, a true stranger to her in every sense. I guessed her… Continue reading That’s a Wrap on Year 29
Forgive the blurry image. I tried to screenshot the video taken 11 years ago, when our 3 year old daughter, turning 4 in June, decided today was the day to take off her training wheels. She has, essentially, never looked back. She is a thinker, a processor, very different from her more impulsive brother; however,… Continue reading When the Training Wheels Come Off
Hannah Herzog was our Lin-Wood student many years ago, and she recently passed away. She was a quiet young woman, whose story I tell every year when we kick off Poetry Out Loud. Her class participated early on in our school’s tradition of Poetry Out Loud, our first or second year perhaps roughly 15 years… Continue reading Here’s to Hannah Herzog
This week is Teacher Appreciation Week, and I want to give a shout out to some of the BEST and most encouraging coaches in the universe! Our kids are damn lucky to be part of the Lin-Wood School and Loon Race Team ski community. Throughout this journey, not knowing where it might lead, I think… Continue reading Gratitude for Great Coaches This Teacher Appreciation Week
Once a sweeper on my soccer team, I am now the sweeper of the woods for our Girls of Summer crew, 16 summers deep. The sweeper position is the last woman back, the last line of defense before the goalkeeper, or in this case in the woods, the one who makes sure no one gets… Continue reading What We Learn from the Back of the Pack
As a teacher, I do not write about teacher appreciation to solicit acts of gratitude, but rather maybe to educate more of the public on what actually informs some of our work not recognized or understood in our teacher contracts or in published test scores. There is so much about teaching that doesn’t fit in… Continue reading Thinking About Teachers Today
Posted by Heather Krill in Life After Paralysis on November 05, 2021 First published on the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog Geoff often travels out to Colorado for work over Halloween so when he is actually home, we try to come up with an extra special family costume. Our kids were super excited about the year we were… Continue reading Halloween Wheelchair Family Costumes
Posted by Heather Krill in Life After Paralysis on December 23, 2021 First Published on the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog This weekend I fell skiing on some ice. But that wasn’t the worst part. The worst part was my inability to get back up on the ice. Each time I tried to right myself, I slid further… Continue reading Sliding into Winter, Christmas, and 2022
Posted by Heather Krill in Life After Paralysis on January 04, 2022 First published on the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation Blog We have this amazing friend, Diane, who takes our annual Christmas card and turns it into an ornament for our tree; they historically have become some of our kid’s most favorite parts of Christmas– the “Diane ones”… Continue reading 2022: To Resolve
Yesterday morning when our sixth grade son– almost 12 years old– woke up to search for his beloved elves, Snowball, Snickers, and Jingle Bells, he mentioned, “I really need to write a note to my elves today. They haven’t been writing to us as much this December as in past years. Maybe they are waiting… Continue reading Saying Goodbye to Santa and his Elves
Heather Ehrman Krill: The "Write" Kind of Coach 