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Recent Posts
- Recent changes to my blog (subtitle: please click on Welcome) May 25, 2023
- Plans for fall 2023 classes May 25, 2023
- Because Look May 7, 2023
- He Went to My School! April 29, 2023
- Lose Yourself, Find Yourself April 21, 2023
- It really is all about the Caring April 17, 2023
- And Grace Will Lead Us Home February 25, 2023
- Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement February 5, 2023
- Goodreads Review: How the Irish Saved Civilization January 21, 2023
- 2023 Word of the Year: FRIEND January 1, 2023
- Review of “Evening in the Palace of Reason: Bach Meets Frederick the Great in The Age of Enlightenment” December 27, 2022
- On Joy, Heritage, and Community: Folk Songs November 11, 2022
- Trained to See October 24, 2022
- To Edna Joyce Ritter Davis on her 90th Birthday September 12, 2022
- On “Education is an Atmosphere” July 2, 2022
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Category Archives: My Personal History
He Went to My School!
I want to tell you a homeschool success story about a perfectly normal student who was born ready to learn, and turned into an amazing young man—under the tutelage of an imperfect and inexperienced homeschool teacher. (That’s me.) When my … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged character, Charlotte Mason, children are born persons, education is a science of relations, education is an atmosphere, James, wisdom
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It really is all about the Caring
Recently, while doing a crossword puzzle, of all things, I thought again about the big picture of why we studied geography in our homeschool, and how that really applies to all the studies. Here’s what I shared with one of … Continue reading
Posted in Character, Home School, My Personal History, Parenting, Teaching
Tagged caring, character, Charlotte Mason, educational goals, educational philosophy, life to the full, wonder
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And Grace Will Lead Us Home
On Thursday I watched the funeral for my friend Lynn Bruce, and today I watched her graveside service. On this day 17 years ago, also a Saturday, we had the graveside service and burial of our daughter Virginia Grace, who … Continue reading
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Tagged grace, grief, life is a mist, mourning, shadow of things to come, Virginia Grace
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Remembrance and Liturgy ….and (Surprise!) Refinement
Every year I remember our daughter Virginia Grace Pelham (February 3 ~ 24, 2006) on her birthday through social media posts and sometimes a blog post here, and most every year I think that it should be the last time … Continue reading
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Tagged character, grief, liturgy, remembering, sanctification, treasures in heaven, trials, Virginia Grace
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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
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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
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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
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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?