Chrissy's Photo A Day

I play this brain game (my neurologist told me to) and one game with trains is really hard. You have to plan ahead and think quickly. I...

Today is my mom's actual 84th birthday but I was too worried about Squirt to really even care. He is having really scary back problem...

I wanted to paint my sisters' fingernails-- give them manicures. I bought a color I thought they'd like and did the whole manicure...

My sisters are here for our mother's 84th birthday. I started this blog when she was still 73. Wow. We did a little clay project toda...

I met my friend for coffee today to kvetch about my life and all the things that seem to be going wrong. I noticed how nice her nails loo...

Today is Squirt's 27th birthday. I started this blog in January 2007 when he was still 16 years old. Wow. Today I worked on creatin...

Posting those photos yesterday of my birth father and me spurred my 1st cousin Barb, whom I've never met, to get in touch with me. She s...

This is my birth father, PTJ. I did a stupid Facebook test to see what I'd look like as a man, and I got this: I guess I lo...

A remarkable day. I was supposed to be gone today, so nothing was on the calendar. I texted my doc student A to see if she was OK and she ...

Today was busy and I did a lot of running around which kept my mind busy. I had a minor surgical procedure this morning which went fine. I...

I went to the studio this morning and glazed some pieces in blues and greens. Then went to school for a noon meeting that got canc...

Today was interesting. We went to church, came home, worked, and then went to Mom's for dinner. We had just finished this first cours...

We had dinner tonight at our friend Terri's house. She is a local artist and her house was full of her artwork: sculptures, paintings...

Friday. I had a department meeting today. I also added two people to my mural. I also went to see the bowls that I'd made for the E...

This morning I realized my calendar was blank. So, I sent a text to my friend J to see if she had time to meet with me to discuss our gran...

Today is today, the last day in January. Today was the blue/blood/lunar eclipse, but I didn't see it. This is a screenshot from a lif...

I finished this Merino wool blanket today. It's got a blues look to it, so maybe my first grandson will get it. It still needs blockin...

This is what my hair looks like put up in a hyperbolic crocheted plane, with a crochet hook anchoring it.

Church today. I played piano and these three sang some songs also. I stayed afterwards to clean up, and Dan was a greeter.

I threw a bit today--- actually, I think I trimmed. I went out to a school to see some students. Tried to pull myself together.

I spent all day on the couch or bed mostly crying today. Could not go to work. I was so upset by the way my colleague treated me yesterday...

Today was horrible. My character was attacked by a colleague and it just hurt so badly. It occurred in the evening, so I was able to work ...

Today I hosted a baby shower for my student from Saudi Arabia. She received tons of gifts and went home with a packed car. It was really r...

My students cleaned up the science storage room for me. Bless them.

There is a new app that compares what you look like to major works of art. Geez. This is what I have in store for me. Well... it look...

Picture perfect postcard from the snowy south. We got the day off, and I took Teensie outside to put her paws in the frosty goodness. I t...

I had coffee today with a former student who is now teaching geology at the university. It's nice when former students become colleag...

The pottery studio was open today (Saturday) for us to throw pots for the Empty Bowls project. I painted these tiles for a different proj...

Woke at 4am. Realized I'd left some folks off the mural. Researched and printed. Made bullet coffee and slurped it down. ...

Today was nuts. I spent the late afternoon and evening working on my mural. Five hours total. This photo above taken of furniture we bo...

The weekends are never long enough. Today we went to church and then I came home and reviewed a manuscript, reviewed a dissertation proposal...