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Trophies and Foundations: Guest Post by Jack Pelham
TROPHIES AND FOUNDATIONS If you experienced even one highly-excellent event in your schooling years, you can probably relate to what I want to say here. For some, it might have been winning the big game. For others, putting on a … Continue reading
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Defending Jane
It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife. Hardly a “once upon a time there was a girl who…” opening. The reader of Jane Austen’s … Continue reading
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Education and The Ordering of the Affections
I have been homeschooling my now 16 year old son from birth. Our homeschooling has involved a lot of reading out loud. Interestingly, although I’m not a nature and sciency kind of person, some of my favorite things to read … Continue reading
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Look and See: The Study of “Science”
This will be my attempt in the true meaning of Essay to explain what I have learned over these 16 years about Science and the teaching of it. I will be sharing in some kind of orderly fashion many ideas … Continue reading
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A Divinity Which Shapes Our Ends
“At the age of seventeen, Abbie must decide whether to marry Ed, and live a life of comfort, or Will, who offers a sod shanty on the Nebraska frontier.” That’s the one sentence description at Goodreads for Bess Streeter Aldrich’s … Continue reading
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Moments at AmblesideOnline Camp Meeting 2019
I wrote the following last month. Now that our web hosting company, who shall not be named, has fixed its glitches, however temporary that may be, here you go: From April 4 -6 I attended the AmblesideOnline (AO) Camp Meeting … Continue reading
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I’ll take Liberty
I posted the following on Facebook a year ago today. It came up on my FB memories, and I thought, “Hey! this sounds like a blog post.” So here you go, in all its original, unedited glory: “I was in … Continue reading
On the Thirteenth Anniversary of Our Daughter’s Birth
Today I commemorate a day that was never going to be. The baby that would be named Virginia Grace Pelham at about 20 weeks gestation was Trisomy-18 from her conception and although she beat some odds to survive to birth, … Continue reading
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Thoughts about Veterans Day and The Greatest Generation
You can look it up to see if I’m right, but what I think I know is that November 11th (and I believe it’s down to the minute at 11:11) was originally called Armistice Day, and commemorated the end of … Continue reading
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