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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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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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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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