Category Archives: Re-entry

Hairy Adventures, Part VII

Posted on August 23, 2013 by Pam

Jonah’s well-wishers will be happy to hear: he cleaned up, just in time for Papa’s 80th birthday tomorrow.  Praise be. So in review, here, at a glance… The Gap Year, In Hair: Zambia Malawi South Africa Miami Ecuador Peru Chile … Continue reading →

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Deadline on sacred time

Posted on August 1, 2013 by Pam

I think I’ll give myself a deadline.  I find deadlines to be helpful. Although obviously there was dreaming and planning and prelude, the true Gap part of our Year began somewhere between Labor Day and October 1 of last fall. … Continue reading →

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Out of Thin Air

Posted on July 30, 2013 by Pam

So, last week when my uncle launched his quest to answer the mystery of how the 466th highest peak in New Hampshire came to bear our unusual family name, there was a degree of eye-rolling amongst the Klem Klan.  (One … Continue reading →

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Into Thin(ish) Air

Posted on July 28, 2013 by Pam

All right — I don’t know that today’s breaking news has any place at all, on the Family Gap Year blog.  Perhaps I ought to work out a different venue.  Nonetheless, having developed such finely honed reportorial habits over the … Continue reading →

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Hairy Adventures, Part V

Posted on July 21, 2013 by Pam

This weekend was Parent Visit Day at Jonah’s summer camp. Because I know that devoted blog fans following the drama of his hair are anxious for an update… What happened? you might, fairly, ask. Well, evidently there was a camp … Continue reading →

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Cry, His Beloved Country

Posted on July 18, 2013 by Pam

Rarely — perhaps once every two or three generations — the precise leader we need, to shepherd us through a perilous passage, appears. Yet more rarely — perhaps once every two or three centuries — we truly and unequivocally follow, … Continue reading →

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Post Partum

Posted on July 9, 2013 by Pam

The kids are gone. Emma is in Washington; Jonah is at camp in Maine; Stella is at camp in New Hampshire. For months during our travels, we were in so-close physical proximity.  Many mornings I would wake up, and before … Continue reading →

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Can’t believe my son missed out on…

Posted on June 26, 2013 by Pam

Bokdrol Spoek Competition. I’m working assiduously now on organizing pictures and putting them into photo books (I am, um, up to Zambia thus far), and, wanting to confirm my identification of a particular photo, I googled “image + impala poop.”  (Yes, … Continue reading →

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… and we’re back.

Posted on June 22, 2013 by Pam

The house, needless to say, is a wreck.  But the garden is looking better than I feared.  Particularly if I squint, and don’t see the weeds. And it was nice to get back to my own pots and pans. I’m … Continue reading →

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