Happy Saturday, folks. The picture above is a cropped bit of the results of my bloodwork taken at Northwestern and sent to the Mayo Clinic. Thanks be to God, the results…

  Happy Saturday, Folks! Pretty good week for me. Cooked almost every day (except yesterday when I had plasmapheresis which usually leaves me feeling wiped; it didn’t though-woohoo!- but we still picked…

  I saw the above adorable picture of Jay Z and daughter Blue Ivy over at Global Grind where they called it “the most adorable photo… of all time.” The picture came…

Yesterday, after destroying the apartment, Zoe tucked herself in using my scarf.     Happy Saturday, Folks. No traveling this week. In fact, I only was in a car one day this…

  Me, window gazing in May 2008.       Spoke with my dad briefly on the phone yesterday. I called to say “Happy Anniversary”. It’s been fourteen years since he married…

    We got back to Dirty Jerz at some unGodly hour on Saturday morning. Safe and sound.   Friday was crazy. My feelings of dread on Thursday turned out to be…

Today’s song- which played on the Adult Rock station that K has uncharacteristically (oddly?) been listening to while we’ve been in Chicago- is The Beatles’ classic, “Yesterday””. It’s fitting my mood to…

    Happy Fifth Anniversary to you, my amazing husband.   You are a wonderful provider, earnest, hard working, and a loving father to Z, your female doppleganger.   This hasn’t been…

  This afternoon, I met with Dr. Burt of Northwestern Memorial Hospital. I was so nervous my heart started racing. In recounting my medical history, I wound up in tears. Not out…

The world’s best hot chocolate, at The Chocolate Bar, Winchester, Virginia.     So I’m back home after a fabulous AND busy week down in Virginia with the BFF. I’ve now gone…