Blatherskite

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I am a Children’s Librarian living in the Portland, Oregon area. When I am not Children’s Librianing I like to play with cameras and film. I also like playing the ukulele, knitting, sketching, and hiking.

Tag: Literature

  • Tell about your favorite book, why it is your favorite, and how it has influenced you.

        I quoted Kurt Vonnegut in a post from a couple of weeks ago. Here, I’ll just post it again (’cause it’s awesome):   “The arts are not a way of making a living. They are a very human way of making life more bearable. Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly,…

  • The Sliding Glass Door

    R and I received in the mail yesterday a book that we both had a hand in the development of. The Sliding Glass Door by Scott Poole. R designed the cover of the book and I took the author’s photo. I wrote a little bit about it, vaguely, in April when I went to Live…

  • What’s Going On

    This is a really sad local story. It especially hits home for me since the man who hit me was also an elderly person. And while I have forgiven the person who hit me (I know he didn’t mean to do it and I’m sure he feels awful) I do feel that he should not…

  • My favorite books

    At the library in which I work we have a “staff favorites” display. Each month a new staff person is featured, and this month I am the lucky one. And so I’ve been thinking about my favorite books. I feel very scatterbrained about the whole thing. So I am going to just list them here…