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: lung cancer

  • A Rant about cancer “awareness” on Facebook

    Every so often (Well, more than that. Like every other day) a status update will pop up on my Facebook feed that says something like this: Please do me a favor. Only some of you will do this and you know who you are. If you or anyone you know has battled (or died of)…

  • A tribute

    I wanted to post a link to this lovely tribute to Ilene Rockman in Reference Services Review. You can get to it by clicking here. Thanks to Fred to sending it to me 🙂

  • A great loss

    I found out on Sunday that the wife of a friend and collegue died, Ilene Rockman. She battled non-smoker’s lung cancer for three years and died on Saturday. I have been sad about it since I found out, and have wanted to post something, but have not been able to find words. Other people in…