43/365 :: Tuesday 12 February 2019
happy mail that always starts with a yay!

44/365 :: Wednesday 13 February 2019
​traditional bridge sunset around Valentine's Day.

45/365 :: Thursday 14 February 2019
​you know you work with preschoolers when...

46/365 :: Friday 15 February 2019
​the sweetest Valentine.

47/365 :: Saturday 16 February 2019
Fire & Ice.

48/365 :: Sunday 17 February 2019
seriously one of the greatest little series I've read. it really made me think about how we learn things and how natural our knowledge is to us.

49/365 :: Monday 18 February 2019
I am so much more entertained by this bicycle than I should be. it's been there for over a year now.

36/365 :: Tuesday 5 February 2019
happy friends.

37/365 :: Wednesday 6 February 2019
​it still seems that the winter will never end.

38/365 :: Thursday 7 February 2019
​giving love.

39/365 :: Friday 8 February 2019
Deer Man was stuck in my head all week after I first heard them working on it in the lobby.

40/365 :: Saturday 9 February 2019
​forty words or less.

41/365 :: Sunday 10 February 2019
unicorn Valentines are the best Valentines, especially when they come with a tattoo.

42/365 :: Monday 11 February 2019
remnants of a week.

29/365 :: Tuesday 29 January 2019
I love that little gap in the snow.

30/365 :: Wednesday 30 January 2019
as the sun sets. but it will rise again.

31/365 :: Thursday 31 January 2019
wrapping up January to step into February.

32/365 :: Friday 1 February 2019
whoops. I broke another pair of Steve Madden riding boots. last time it was the zipper.

33/365 :: Saturday 2 February 2019
​here we go again.

34/365 :: Sunday 3 February 2019
​and they're off.

35/365 :: Monday 4 February 2019
​Monday night at the museum.

22/365 :: Tuesday 22 January 2019
​reading my way through the year already (and watching Late Night with Seth Meyers, of course).

23/365 :: Wednesday 23 January 2019
​as the sun sets.

24/365 :: Thursday 24 January 2019
this week's library stack.

25/365 :: Friday 25 January 2019
I have left many a note in library books, sometimes accidentally whatever I'm using as a bookmark, but this was the first time that I found a bookcover and a few pages tucked into the dustjacket of a book. seeing this cover brings me back to seventh grade.

26/365 :: Saturday 26 January 2019
frozen sunrise.

27/365 :: Sunday 27 January 2019
this is called the wreath fell off my door (Command strips don't usually fail me) and I don't own nails and haven't remembered to get them because I've only been to Target once this month. maybe someday I'll remember and it'll not be hanging in my kitchen anymore.

28/365 :: Monday 28 January 2019
when I used to live in a house, my bedroom window would get these beautiful crystals on it in the cold. I've missed that, but I got just a few this morning durning our cold and snow and wind, and that made me smile.

15/365 :: Tuesday 15 January 2019
I hung my dreamcatcher up after nearly five years of living in a box. it won a blue ribbon at the fair one summer... but will it work? that I don't know.

16/365 :: Wednesday 16 January 2019
​outgoing mail. happy colors and loving words.

17/365 :: Thursday 17 January 2019
the carrots in the sugar skull Pyrex might look like Halloween, but there's winter outside.

18/365 :: Friday 18 January 2019
​the snow is falling again.

19/365 :: Saturday 19 January 2019
because I can't remember how small it was when I brought it home.

20/365 :: Sunday 20 January 2019
a day shy of a two-year streak (it's still continuing) means that it was a day shy of two years since I returned from a trip to Ecuador.

21/365 :: Monday 21 January 2019
​the sun will always rise.

8/365 :: Tuesday 8 January 2019
another week, another stack of books from the library.

9/365 :: Wednesday 9 January 2019
it turns out that you really do need to do the toothpick check even if they look cooked on the outside. (also, I managed to leave my cupcake potholders in a box at my grandparents' house on Christmas.)

10/365 :: Thursday 10 January 2019
they truly don't make them the way they used to. I've had these for six and a half years, but some of the ones I've had since then have already fallen more apart.

11/365 :: Friday 11 January 2019
maybe I'll return your quarters. maybe not. (but probably.)

12/365 :: Saturday 12 January 2019
if the library doesn't securely attach the dust jacket, I will take it off when I'm reading it.

13/365 :: Sunday 13 January 2019
sunrise reflection.

14/365 :: Monday 14 January 2019
I put the dust jacket back on to take this book with me to a coffeehouse in Green Bay because I try to not have strangers talking to me in public. does it work? not always.

I never made it out of Wisconsin, but I saw some new places anyway
7137 miles driven in my Volkswagen Beetle, plus unidentified miles in the other four cars I drove
I saw Lake Michigan in at least three cities
thirteen cemeteries visited
my first traffic violation (oh hey, Milwaukee County parking ticket)
dessert for lunch at SAP at least once
I hung out with other people’s dogs and cats and small children
439 pieces of happy mail sent
1 new tattoo
first experienced the joy that is grocery shopping at Aldi
a second library card
103 books read (YA, true crime, poetry, fiction, and non-fiction), plus four and a half audiobooks and innumerable picture books
my cookbooks now live in my kitchen
I listened to every episode of the greatest podcast (My Favorite Murder) at least once
sunsets, sunrises, but never a mile swam
8557 photographs taken
so many hugs
dishes and laundry washed, pots of coffee brewed
phone calls, questions, and text messages answered
four new plants, three of which are still alive
sixty-seven migraines
my first check for photography work
and never enough sleep.
here’s to hoping that we all find what we’re looking for in 2019.

1. Emma in Buttonland by Ulrike Rylance, illustrated by Silke Leffler; 1.1
2. The Bad Beginning by Lemony Snicket; 1.2*
​3. Finding Betty Crocker: The Secret Life of America’s First Lady of Food by Susan Marks; 1.2-1.6*
4. The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women by Kate Moore; 1.7-1.10

5. The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket; 1.10-1.11*
6. The Wide Window by Lemony Snicket; 1.11-1.12*
7. The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snicket; 1.12-1.13*
8. The Austere Academy by Lemony Snicket; 1.13-1.14*

9. The Ersatz Elevator by Lemony Snicket; 1.14-1.16*
10. The Vile Village by Lemony Snicket; 1.16-1.18*
11. The Hostile Hospital by Lemony Snicket; 1.18-1.19*
12. the sun and her flowers by rupi kaur; 1.18-1.22

13. The Carnivorous Carnival by Lemony Snicket; 1.19-1.21*
14. The Slippery Slope by Lemony Snicket; 1.21-1.23*
15. The Grim Grotto by Lemony Snicket; 1.23-1.24*
16. Vivian Maier: Out of the Shadows by Richard Cahan, Michael Williams, Vivian Maier; 1.24-1.25
17. The Penultimate Peril by Lemony Snicket; 1.24-1.26*
18. The End by Lemony Snicket; 1.26-1.28*
19. Before I Let Go by Marieke Nijkamp; 1.28-2.1

20. Steal Like an Artist: 10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative by Austin Kleon; 1.29-1.30
21. Paper Towns by John Green; 2.2-2.5
22. The City Baker’s Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller; 2.6-2.9
23. Everything Is Awful: And Other Observations by Matt Bellassai; 2.9-2.11
24. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green; 2.11-2.15

25. Vivian Maier: A Photographer’s Life and Afterlife by Pamela Bannos; 2.12-2.20

26. The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas; 2.19-2.25
27. Turtles All the Way Down by John Green; 2.25-2.27
28. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald; 2.27-3.2
29. The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton; 3.3-3.4*

30. Lazaretto by Diane McKinney-Whetstone; 3.5-3.7

31. What I Was Doing While You Were Breeding by Kristin Newman; 3.7-3.10
32. Surprise Me by Sophie Kinsella; 3.10-3.13
33. Dear Data by Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec; 3.10-3.16
34. The Last to Let Go by Amber Smith; 3.14-3.17

35. People Like Us by Dana Mele; 3.17-3.20
36. The Polygamist’s Daughter by Anna LeBaron; 3.21-3.23
37. Nice Try, Jane Sinner by Lianne Oelke; 3.24-3.28
38. Scarlett Epstein Hates It Here by Anna Breslaw; 3.28-4.1
39. How It Feels to Fly by Kathryn Holmes; 4.2-4.3
40. The Perfect Nanny by Leila Slimani; 4.4-4.7

41. Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng; 4.7-4.11
42. The Two-Family House by Lynda Cohen Loigman; 4.11-4.15
43. Furiously Happy: A Funny Book About Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson; 4.16-4.20

44. Depression & Other Magic Tricks by Sabrina Benaim; 4.18-4.20
45. Georgia Peaches and Other Forbidden Fruit by Jaye Robin Brown; 4.20-4.24
46. Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum; 4.24-4.27
47. The Loose Ends List by Carrie Firestone; 4.27-5.1
48. So Close to Being the Sh*t, Y’all Don’t Even Know by Retta; 5.1-5.6​

49. One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus; 5.7-5.9
50. Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi; 5.9-5.13
51. Puddin' by Julie Murphy; 5.13-5.17
52. Love & Gelato by Jenna Evans Welch; 5.17-5.21

53. In Sight of Stars by Gae Polisner; 5.21-5.24
54. Stay Sweet by Siobhan Vivian; 5.24-5.27
55. The Odds of Lightning by Jocelyn Davies; 5.28-5.30
56. Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley; 5.30-6.2
57. The Stranger Beside Me: Ted Bundy: The Classic Case of Serial Murder by Ann Rule; 6.2-6.11

58. Going Geek by Charlotte Huang; 6.12-6.17
59. Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch; 6.18-6.23
60. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver; 6.23-6.29
61. Something in Between by Melissa de la Cruz; 6.29-7.4
62. Lunch in Paris: A Love Story, with Recipes by Elizabeth Bard; 7.5-7.9
63. The Female of the Species by Mindy McGinnis; 7.10-7.13

64. Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell; 7.14-7.17
65. I’ll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman’s Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer by Michelle McNamara; 7.18-7.24

66. The Little Book of Hygge: Danish Secrets to Happy Living by Meik Wiking; 7.24-7.27
67. Wonder by R.J. Palacio; 7.25-7.28
68. Genuine Fraud by E. Lockhart; 7.29-8.1

69. For Every One by Jason Reynolds; 8.1-8.3

70. The Last Suppers by Mandy Mikulencak; 8.1-8.6
71. The Summer of Broken Things by Margaret Peterson Haddix; 8.6-8.12

72. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman; 8.13-8.18
73. Come Matter Here: Your Invitation to BE HERE in a GETTING THERE World by Hannah Brencher; 8.18-8.22
74. The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas; 8.23-8.28

75. Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix by J.K. Rowling; 8.23- [for Harry Potter and the Sacred Text]*

76. If I Stay by Gayle Forman; 8.28-8.31
77. Our House by Louise Candlish; 9.1-9.5
78. We Are Still Tornadoes by Michael Kun & Susan Mullen; 9.5-9.7
79. Fika: The Art of the Swedish Coffee Break with Recipes for Pastries, Breads, and Other Treats by Anna Brones & Johanna Kindvall; 9.8-9.9
80. Refinery29 Money Diaries: Everything You’ve Ever Wanted to Know About Your Finances… and Everyone Else’s by Lindsey Stanberry; 9.10-9.13
81. Girl Made of Stars by Ashley Herring Blake; 9.14-9.17
82. Girl in Pieces by Kathleen Glasgow; 9.17-9.23

83. Where She Went by Gayle Forman; 9.24-9.28
84. This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills; 9.29-10.3
85. Ghosted by Rosie Walsh; 10.4-10.9
86. The Five People You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom; 10.10
87. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs; 10.11-10.16

88. Hollow City by Ransom Riggs; 10.17-10.23
89. Library of Souls by Ransom Riggs; 10.23-10.28
90. A Map of Days by Ransom Riggs; 10.28-11.3
91. The BFG by Roald Dahl; 11.4-11.6*
92. Oliver Jeffers: The Working Mind & Drawing Hand by Oliver Jeffers; 11.6-11.8
93. Looking for Alaska by John Green; 11.7-11.12*

94. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by Stephen Chbosky; 11.13-11.15*
95. Broken Things by Lauren Oliver; 11.16-11.19
96. Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty; 11.19-11.27
97. The Help by Kathryn Stockett; 11.28-12.5*
98. The Next Person You Meet in Heaven by Mitch Albom; 12.6-12.8
99. If You Feel Too Much by Jamie Tworkowski; 12.9-12.13

100. Sturgeon Bay (Images of America: Wisconsin) by Ann Jinkins and Maggie Weir for the Door County Historical Museum; 12.14-12.15
101. The Memory of Light by Francisco X. Stork; 12.15-12.24
102. the princess saves herself in this one by Amanda Lovelace; 12.18-12.25

103. Fans of the Impossible Life by Kate Scelsa; 12.25-12.31
104. The Deal of a Lifetime by Fredrik Backman; 12.31

* denotes reread

1/365 :: Tuesday 1 January 2019
starting the year off right with two new books.

2/365 :: Wednesday 2 January 2019
maybe we should just call this series of daily photos "the view from Teresa's windows." (I don't even remember why I took this one.)

3/365 :: Thursday 3 January 2019
I fixed it. but friendly reminder to not touch things that don't belong to you.

4/365 :: Friday 4 January 2019
I have been wearing these for more than three years now. I treat my car and my shoes the same - just keep using them until they literally fall apart.

5/365 :: Saturday 5 January 2019
​feather clouds. because the sky is blue and the sun was out for a few days in a row!

6/365 :: Sunday 6 January 2019
one of my favorite places.

7/365 :: Monday 7 January 2019
winter in Door County. snow and rain because who cares about seasons anymore?

358/365 :: Monday 24 December 2018
Christmas Eve sunrise and a dusting of snow.

359/365 :: Tuesday 25 December 2018
​Christmas on Sand Bay.

360/365 :: Wednesday 26 December 2018
I just love watching the sky, and I love that I have this nice viewpoint.

361/365 :: Thursday 27 December 2018
collaged Swedish matches. so adorable.

362/365 :: Friday 28 December 2018
the weather has been weird, and I liked these extra sparkle raindrops on the trees, but apparently my lens didn't want to focus on anything that day.

363/365 :: Saturday 29 December 2018
the twenty-ninth is for dressing up and dressing up usually includes Frye boots.

364/365 :: Sunday 30 December 2018
three years in my happy home.

365/365 :: Monday 31 December 2018
finally, the first real snowfall of the winter. it was late like this three years ago when I moved downtown.