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: Spokane Washington

  • 2011 in 12 Sentences

    I have to look back at my blog because I, seriously, can’t remember what happened this past year. It’s all been a blur… January: I bought Vibrams and joined Barefoot running/minimalist shoe revolution! February: More running. Lots of it! yay running! March: Ukulele Festival was great! Visiting Spokane and seeing my Flickr friends was fabulous!…

  • Oh I wish I could tell the the 2009 Monica…

    Oh I wish I could tell the the 2009 Monica…

    As I mentioned previously, when I moved my blog to WordPress.com I lost all of the categories and  tags to every. single. blog post I’ve ever written here. How long have I had this blog? Since January 2003. So yeah. Lots of updating and cleaning up for Miss Monica (because I compulsively have to catalog…

  • The window seat

    The window seat

    I was boarding the plane from Spokane to Portland on Monday morning and in a bad mood. The news about Osama Bin-Laden broke the night before and the partying-in-the-streets reaction to it had me feeling bummed out. Not to mention, I was tired from not getting any sleep at my mom’s house and sore from…

  • This is what I sound like

    I came across this meme on Sassenach’s blog when I was catching up on my blog reading the other day. Since then I’ve found it all over the internet on lots of other blogs and Youtube. I find this kind of thing fascinating. I’ve always been interested in the study of dialects and accents. So…

  • What’s Going On

    I thought this look into Kerouac‘s “other” writing fascinating. Dude. I think I’m going with insane. The oldest man to summit Everest is from Spokane. And he did it Tuesday. Has the missing link been found?