Chrissy's Photo A Day

All purple. Today I spent nursing a migraine that developed last night from crying so much at the funeral of a young man we watched grow up....

The two Ds stopped by again tonight and one of them snapped this picture of Squirt. I think it's so beautiful. My happy smiling boy- suc...

Frisbee misses Kate and Jess. Today I found him snuggled up in the bed they occupied while here. He dug himself down into the sheets... Toda...

I tried to work some today, but my office is a mess and it's hard to focus. I managed to work some on my dissertation and some on a pape...

Everybody left today and I was sad. I took a nap and felt really lonely, missing everyone. This picture is of a bulb I planted last year. My...

More family arrived today! Dad and J and little sister S arrived, and so did Aza's Jacob. We ate all day long. S and I did the Diet Coke...

Christmas morning found Kate in bed with a migraine. She slept it off partway, then we opened presents. I got a cool Ikea chair, the Big Lov...

Christmas Eve. We went downtown (that's Kate shopping for maternity clothes), out to Monticello, and over to see the Lawn. A lovely day ...

The house is filling up. The two Ds stopped by this evening to see Squirt, who was with Kels. Mom and I had a nice visit with them. D is get...

This morning Aza, Jes and I went to the reunion party at VS. I saw so many of my former students and had a good time browsing through the sc...

Today Jes went out and bought us a Christmas tree. She and Aza decorated it in the evening, dancing to the Nutcracker, as is their custom.

Jes came by for some supper tonight after babysitting a little girl in the neighborhood. She was looking for something to do to make money s...

Aza is helping me teach this week. Getting her feet wet- either that, or scaring her away from middle school teaching forever! It's nice...

It was supposed to snow today. You can see that it was a bright sunny day instead. This evening, with Aza home and Squirt doing French homew...

Today I was worried about being headachy, and thought about staying home, but I'd signed up to work on a Habitat for Humanity house. I w...

Developed a migraine overnight. Woke up early and took a Maxalt and managed to go to school. They are really stripping the land next to the ...

I went to the new ACAC gym downtown on the way home from work today. It was a really nice gym, but I didn't bring a water bottle, and I ...

Last night I set up the equipment for splitting water into hydrogen gas and oxygen gas. I let it run all night long and this morning I had a...

Today I mailed Christmas packages at the post office on the Downtown Mall. There's a Free Speech wall, and I liked this prophesy I read.

Today, Monday, I begin to see the end of teaching middle school in sight. Here is a picture of the algae colonies we are growing- it will be...

Today I graded papers, graded journals, and got ready for a new week. This week I will not tolerate sassing, talking in class while I'm ...

I went on a rampage Saturday, cleaning out bathroom closets, throwing away old bottles of expired medicines and vitamins and lotions. I even...

There used to be a woods next to the school. But this week I watched a bulldozer push the trees down morning and afternoon. Today they were ...

It snowed this morning but not enough to cancel school. Today, Thursday, is an odd day of the week and usually odd days are rough for me. I ...

Today was a gray Wednesday. It looks like it's going to snow.