Author Archives: Kay Pelham

Pregnancy and Infant Loss Remembrance Day

Posted on October 15, 2018 by Kay Pelham

Anyone who knows me well and either reads here or at Facebook knows that it doesn’t take much to get me to remember and talk about my daughter. Here’s something I posted last week at Facebook after I saw a … Continue reading →

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You’re Better Than You Think You Are: Life Lesson from a Cello Lesson

Posted on September 24, 2018 by Kay Pelham

I have been playing piano for 49 years. One year and a half ago I began cello lessons. I have attempted other instruments through the years, but this was the first that I took seriously enough to go beyond buying … Continue reading →

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What I Learned 20 Years Ago

Posted on July 28, 2018 by Kay Pelham

You don’t always get what you want. Certainly, I had this figured out by age 36, but my 31 year old brother’s death was the hardest lesson I had had up to that point of the reality of this. (And regardless … Continue reading →

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An expensive trip to the neighborhood coffee shop and some analysis

Posted on July 9, 2018 by Kay Pelham

I’m going to try to type this up really fast, so that I can enjoy the rest of my evening, hopefully as planned and without event. Jack said, “And now you can blog about it.” And so I will. I … Continue reading →

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Who Got Here First and What in the World are We to do at this point

Posted on July 2, 2018 by Kay Pelham

“Illegal” immigration. Oh, the debates that this brings up. Are the immigration laws even moral and just? That’s the present. Do we consider the past in determining what should be done in the present? Who got here first, anyways? And … Continue reading →

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Where I Lived, and What I Lived For (or, I Wished to Live Deliberately)

Posted on June 30, 2018 by Kay Pelham

I stole those phrases from Thoreau. One is a chapter title from Walden, and the other is the very famous phrase from that chapter: “I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately…” I’m currently reading Walden in … Continue reading →

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I’m Not Sorry About My Dad

Posted on June 16, 2018 by Kay Pelham

I have had this post going on in my head since October, 2015. That’s when my Dad died. My Dad had many people who thought well of him and many, many who came to the visitations at the funeral home … Continue reading →

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Little House and my Happy Golden Years

Posted on June 7, 2018 by Kay Pelham

One of the reasons I’m grateful that I got to have at least one child is that I was given the opportunity to revisit the Little House series. My old books, purchased in the late 60s/early 70s, got to come … Continue reading →

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Thanks for the Memories

Posted on April 22, 2018 by Kay Pelham

I’m actually not very good with remembering things. I was listening to a podcast with Karen Glass, author of Know and Tell: The Art of Narration, and she mentioned that Charlotte Mason made a distinction between Memorization and Memory. Yep, … Continue reading →

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I’m Jolly Well Going to Get Some of the Advantages, Too

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Kay Pelham

I am the fourth of my parents’ five children. Our youngest sibling passed from this life at the age of 31 from cancer. That was an anomaly in our family longevity, except for our maternal grandmother who died at 36 … Continue reading →

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