Author Archives: Kay Pelham

Education and The Ordering of the Affections

Posted on September 28, 2019 by Kay Pelham

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”

Posted on September 22, 2019 by Kay Pelham

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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Guest Post: James Pelham, age 16, on Thinking (or not)

Posted on September 8, 2019 by Kay Pelham

In a program, when something goes wrong, the program crashes. It sees its current state versus what its state is supposed to be, then goes ‘Hey! These aren’t the same!’; but rather than thinking about what led to this difference, … Continue reading →

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Thoughts on Empathy and the Education of James Pelham

Posted on August 20, 2019 by Kay Pelham

What is it I want to say about Empathy? So many things are running through my mind that I want to share with you, but mostly it is that I want you to understand that that is the end-goal of … Continue reading →

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Towards a Philosophy of Remembering

Posted on July 14, 2019 by Kay Pelham

I wrote here about the value of remembering and my own failure to have as much written on my heart as I think I should. My friend Cindy is a big proponent of Remembering. In her “Morning Time for Moms” … Continue reading →

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A Divinity Which Shapes Our Ends

Posted on June 9, 2019 by Kay Pelham

“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

Posted on May 7, 2019 by Kay Pelham

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

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Kay Pelham

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 →

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On the Thirteenth Anniversary of Our Daughter’s Birth

Posted on February 3, 2019 by Kay Pelham

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

Posted on November 11, 2018 by Kay Pelham

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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