Degrees in Idealism

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At the end of the day

06.13.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 3 Comments

At the end of the day

I often look at my children and wonder, am I doing enough for them? I’m sure every parent throughout history has asked that same question. But I think our modern hyper-connectivity, especially through social media, poses the question more frequently and dramatically. It is easy to feel overwhelmed and confused by all the possibilities and […]

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Categories // Family Tags // #family, #homelife, #homeschool, #koselig, #livingsimply, #motherhood, #parenthood

A Mother’s Bias

05.10.2016 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

A Mother’s Bias

I’m not doing this again.  I’ve thought it quite a few times. I thought it through my pregnancy’s complications and annoyances. I thought it as they strapped me to the operating table and started vigorously pushing and pulling on my stomach. I thought it as I first stepped out of the hospital bed and felt […]

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Categories // Family Tags // #babies, #courage, #faith, #motherhood, #parenthood

No Santa? But What About the Magic?

12.17.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

No Santa? But What About the Magic?

I’ve written before about why we aren’t doing Santa in the traditional sense. We love and appreciate him and want to maintain his spirit through both his real Saint namesake and through his fairy tale, but we won’t be insisting that he delivers our children’s gifts on Christmas Day. I am a bit unique in the camp of […]

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Categories // Family Tags // #children, #christmas, #faith, #magic, #parenthood, #santa

Mommy Blog?

11.03.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 4 Comments

Mommy Blog?

But I don’t want my blog to become a mommy blog! That was my cry. I said I wanted to maintain relatability. I wanted to make sure twenty-something single guys felt like they could read my stuff without stooping to some level they’d be ashamed of. I didn’t want my single or childless friends to […]

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Categories // Family Tags // #mommyblog, #motherhood, #parenthood, #stayathomemom

How to Expect When You’re Expecting

09.06.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // 2 Comments

How to Expect When You’re Expecting

With each of our pregnancies, my husband and I have had a difficult time treating the life inside me like it actually was a life. I don’t mean that we have ever believed that it wasn’t — just that the feelings don’t seem to come naturally. It is not always easy to actually treat a […]

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Categories // Family Tags // #family, #motherhood, #parenthood, #pregnancy, #prolife, #unbornbaby

On Homeschooling and All Other Things “DIY”

06.12.2015 by Elizabeth Hanna Pham // Leave a Comment

We are a nation of outsourcing. In the last century we have figured out how to outsource our food, our labor, our entertainment, the education and raising of children, and even (with the advent of social media) our relationships. A person in this day and age can theoretically live an entire life without touching soil […]

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Categories // Culture, Family Tags // #diy, #homeschooling, #livingsimply, #parenthood, #stayathomemom

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About Me

I'm Elizabeth. I'm a wife, a mother to three little boys, a writer, and a lover and seeker of the beautiful, the true, and the good. I am a believer in idealism-- that even amidst the chaos and the confusion, the exhaustion and the sadness of life there is always joy to be found, hope to be clung to, and a better path to be taken. I write my thoughts on this blog. A link to my fiction book is at the bottom of the page.

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About The Name

“There are degrees in idealism. We learn first to play with it academically, as the magnet was once a toy. Then we see in the heyday of youth and poetry that it may be true, that it is true in gleams and fragments. Then, its countenance waxes stern and grand, and we see that it must be true.”

– Ralph Waldo Emerson

I found this quote well described my own experience– consistently reworking my idealism, being surprised by it, sometimes even losing it only to discover it all the more fully. I know we will never find all the answers, but how thrilling it is to find ourselves getting a little closer to the source and summit of things, a little closer, as we work our way through the “degrees.”

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sons of God

A short novella in which Lucifer talks about his dad.

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