Author Archives: Kay Pelham

Going on a Bear Hunt

Posted on February 8, 2012 by Kay Pelham

Jack found scat one day last week, and suspects it might belong to a bear. I’ll spare you the pictures of that, but I will share pictures of the camera and bait that he and James set up to see … Continue reading →

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Wanting to Belong II – “House Rules” by Jodi Picoult

Posted on January 15, 2012 by Kay Pelham

Emma Hunt is a single mother of two teen-aged boys. Jacob, the older of the two, has Asperger’s Syndrome. Fifteen year old Theo does not. Their mother has established “house rules,” which include “Tell the Truth” and “Take care of … Continue reading →

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Wanting to Belong — Brat Farrar

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Kay Pelham

On the suggestion of a friend who said, “I can eat her books like jelly donuts,” I brought home two Josephine Tey novels from the library and another is on its way from Amazon. I chose Brat Farrar for my first … Continue reading →

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A Resolve for 2012

Posted on January 7, 2012 by Kay Pelham

I have realized through the years, as others would marvel at my knowledge of movies and books, that I mostly had spent time reading about movies and books, rather than actually reading the books or watching the movies. When I … Continue reading →

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Meeting the family — Thanksgiving, 2001

Posted on November 24, 2011 by Kay Pelham

Previously I wrote about events of 10 years ago and my growing friendship with Jack. Today I remember Thanksgiving 10 years ago when I first met the Pelhams — a lot of Pelhams! Jack and I drove made in through … Continue reading →

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Take a hike, James!

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Kay Pelham

Scenes from a recent hike James took with his Dad.

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A moment with Edna

Posted on October 31, 2011 by Kay Pelham

For the sake of having another blog post for this month,  I’ll post this story that I shared with my Facebook world today. (I’m so lame at this blogging thing. My excuse this time is that in this month we … Continue reading →

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Art and Music and a little Danke Schoen

Posted on October 6, 2011 by Kay Pelham

We are away from home and on a 3 week break from lessons. So from my remote area in the Cayman Islands (joking!) I’ll do a write up about our Art and Music studies. The artist whose works we’re getting … Continue reading →

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Vasco, Pizarro, Leonardo, Marco, Martin and John

Posted on September 24, 2011 by Kay Pelham

I best get on with this 6 week review now that we’ve finished our 8th week of school. I’ll begin with our journeys through British, American and World History. This is our third year reading Our Island Story by H.E. … Continue reading →

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Math Wars

Posted on September 23, 2011 by Kay Pelham

Before I continue with the beautiful and glowing reports of our History, Geography, Literature readings and Art and Music studies as promised in the last post, I’m going to share the hardest battle we’ve have this school term. (Funny that … Continue reading →

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