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Category Archives: My Personal History
2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND
This makes me mightily nervous, but there it is. It is an idea I’ve had on my heart for years and years, and after pondering for the last few days about a word for the year, and going back and … Continue reading
Posted in Character, My Personal History
Tagged courage, friendship, honesty, humility, introversion, life is a mist, meaning, my brother James, not your own, resolutions
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To Edna Joyce Ritter Davis on her 90th Birthday
Ethereal is how you must have looked with that snow-white hair as you criedDaddy, please don’t leave me. And your young widowed father took you by the handNever to send you off to live with another family again.And so from … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History
Tagged commitment, faithfulness, Long Life, Mothering, Wifing
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Charlotte Mason: Way Beyond Tip-Toeing Through the Tulips
There is the Courage of our opinions. By opinions I do not mean the loosely taken up catchwords of the moment, those things which ‘everybody says,’ and with which it is rather agreeable than otherwise to startle our less advanced … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, educational philosophy, honesty, humility, integrity, life to the full, made in His image
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And he writes of us
On this our 20th wedding anniversary my poet writes of our journey. And if you’re curious about the day of the daisy, here is where I wrote about that. What else would you like to know?
On the Occasion of Two Decades of For Better, For Worse, For Richer, For Poorer
Twenty years ago today we stood on that stage at a little church in Tennessee, with our families and friends as witnesses, and made those pledges above. I remember that I also vowed to support all of his efforts to … Continue reading
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Tagged commitment, home, honesty, Jack, marriage, til death do us part
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On the 16th Anniversary of our Daughter’s Birth: Grace meet Wendi, Wendi meet Grace
This post is sort of what I planned for this day of remembering Virginia Grace Pelham (February 3, 2006 ~ February 24, 2006), but with the death yesterday, February 1, of my friend Wendi Capehart, who was already a part … Continue reading
Posted in Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged all lives matter, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, gratitude, grief, honesty, i am pro-life, life is a mist, providence, trisomy-18, truth, Virginia Grace, wisdom
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Retirement and Goals for my new life
May 14 is my last day as a homeschool teacher. I have been directing my son’s education from birth. We began his official school education when I registered him with an “umbrella school” in Tennessee as K4 in 2007. I … Continue reading
Posted in My Personal History, Teaching, Uncategorized
Tagged living, vocation
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