One of my greatest joys of running Legal Insurrection is the longevity of our key authors, three of whom (Mike, Leslie, Fuzzy) have celebrated 10th year Anniversaries with us, and several more people 5th year anniversaries. We can add an addition to the Ten Year Club, Kemberlee Kaye.You can read my anniversary posts about them at our Author Anniversary tag.Ten years ago today, on July 30, 2014, Kemberlee posted for the first time at Legal Insurrection.HOLD ON – that’s a lie. I am about to reveal to you something so secret that I forgot about it until recently. Kemberlee did some test posts for us under the pseudonym Red Dawn beginning on June 23, 2014. I hope you can keep this secret.According to our dashboard, Kemberlee has Feminists Fall For #PissForEquality Hoax, about how liberal feminists fell for a 4chan hoax effort to show how liberated they were by peeing their pants and posting images of it.
[Kemberlee and her sister Kristee, who also works for the Foundation, at the ALEC Conference, November 2023]
Kemberlee texted me the Featured Image above, and the following message for readers:
Walt was born with an extremely rare heart defect but he’s in good hands, receiving great care, is stable, and improving a little every day. We look forward to having him home.We want to express our sincere gratitude for the overwhelming care, support, and prayers from friends and family.
Our Legal Insurrection family is praying for Walt’s recovery, and the day he can join his parents, two big sisters, and extended family at home.
If you believe in the power of prayer, please say a prayer. If you don’t believe in the power of prayer, say a prayer anyway.
Many times readers will ask me how Baby Walt is doing. Kemberlee’s last update was when Walt was two and a half, and there were some medical concerns:
I cherish your prayers. They strengthened me through Walter’s first months with us. Your messages, emails, comments and kindness were incredible support when I and my faith were stretched to the max. When I look back, I never asked the Lord to heal my son, I thanked Him that it was already finished. Finished because of His son. My heart and attitude remain in that place. My faith is stronger now than before. But the process is brutal.I am heavy-hearted. Typing through tears. To have an infant with such a condition is one thing, to have a wild, active, amazing little toddler facing open-heart surgery is another entirely. The prospect of a life-long affliction is daunting. But my God is so much bigger than all of this. So it’s not with fear and worry that I look to Walter’s next appointment later this year (after all, perfect love casts out fear 1 John 4:18), but I am expecting the report of the Lord. The King of the Universe.I thank the Lord for you. For the entire Legal Insurrection team. May you be filled with His perfect, complete shalom peace this summer and may His presence abound in your life, in your situations, whatever they may be. That all should work out for the good of those who love Him (Romans 8:28).
Walt is now four, and he’s enormous, energetic, really a miracle. I’ve met him. He’s polite and looks two years older than he is. Recent doctor visits have been excellent, Kemberlee tells me, but of course there’s always the tension and worry leading up to the check up. Maybe she’ll do another update for readers?
With all the success we’re having at the Foundation, a lot of people are just hearing of us. I feel sometimes that we’re like that band who spends a decade grinding out road trips and appearances at small clubs and bars, and then comes out with a hit album and everyone is like “they’re an overnight success.” It took us a long time to get to where we are, there’s nothing overnight about it.
I never know how to end these 10-year anniversary posts. Saying “thanks” to people who have been with me for over a decade doesn’t seem enough.
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