Pamela Chapman is a semi-retired registered nurse with a career spanning more than fifty years. Her most recent nursing practice was in Hospice Information Management. She is married and has two children. Her son, Kendrick is in heaven and her daughter Ursula lives in Kalamazoo.  She has two grandchildren, my grandson, Kendrick is in heaven and my granddaughter, Magnolia is a first-grade student at Winchell Elementary. She also has a two-and-a-half-year-old great-granddaughter, Delialiah.  Pam started her quilting journey years ago with her mother but she was never truly interested in the craft until 2015 when her daughter was pregnant with her first child (that’s how a lot of quilters get started).  Pam decided to make a baby quilt and that’s when she discovered she had not been a very good student all those years ago. Unfortunately, on February 24, 2015,  the baby was born prematurely and subsequently died.  She finished that first quilt as best she could and that baby, Ezekial James, became her muse. She taught herself to quilt and is still learning and exploring.  Pam says, “Some say, things happen for a reason but I say things happen for a purpose.”