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Throwback Thursday: Great(ly different) Expectations.
Note: This post was first published on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on December 31, 2012. ~Li Princeton University. I did not attend. I did, however, drive by a number of…
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Throwback Thursday: “You’re HUGE” & Other Dumb Things Not to Say or Do to a Pregnant Woman
Note: This post was first published on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on March 30, 2011. Enjoy! ~Li (Photo: Flickr) God bless ’em, the jerks who have thought it all in…
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PSA: So you noticed I’m disabled…
… and I am. Now get over it. It’s summer, and the more I go out, the more I run into people who get spontaneous, explosive, diarrhea of the mouth because of…
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Throwback Thursday: Zoe 101: Lessons From My Daughter
Note from Li: This post was first published on my old blog, Far Above Rubies, on March 6, 2012. I’m republishing it today, with an update: Matt is now an awesome dad…
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Lent- Day 35: The Last Temptation of Alisha.
Beloved, my husband brought home the cake pictured above. Along with a large tray of brownies. There was a bakesale at his job, he said, and well, he brought me… a…
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Lent- Day 34: Why blog?
(Image: John P. Weiss) Yesterday’s post, complete with cutie-pie pic of Z, got over 70 hits. Thursday’s barely hit 20. My most popular post in this Lenten series got something like…
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Lent- Day 26: Congratulations.
In Thomas Edison’s workshop. (Picture, my own.) Today, I took Zoe to the Thomas Edison National Historical Park in West Orange (N.J.- um, if you aren’t aware by now, I live…
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Lent- Second Sunday: Blessings.
(Image Source: Genius) “If I ever took a loss, I learned a lesson”“Blessings”, Lecrae I lost three followers from this blog’s Facebook page over the past week and a half-…
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Until you return to the ground.
By the sweat of your brow you will eat your fooduntil you return to the ground, since from it you were taken;for dust you are and to dust you will return.” -Genesis 3:19 Ash…
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Baby, I’m just soggy from the chemo.
On the April 12th, I underwent the first round of chemotherapy for the stem cell transplant at Northwestern. I was given a rather large, private room, complete with a spectacular…
