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: United States

  • Barack and roll!

    I am SO HAPPY and relieved that Obama won re-election. I haven’t been into politics for quite awhile. I used to rant about it  a lot on this blog awhile ago. But that fire has turned into a few smoldering embers at the bottom of the pit. On the eve before election day I suddenly…

  • Photography Friday: Weeds

    Photography Friday: Weeds

    Oh my goodness! how has more than a week gone by? I’ve been busy. I met Preita again for coffee! This time at Tiny’s in NorthEast Portland. I think so far this is my favorite place. It wasn’t pretentious. The coffee was pretty good. Everything about it was cool. Except for one thing. There were…

  • Highlights

    Highlights

    I’ve been spending some time updating the photos on older blog posts and have been enjoying the walk down memory lane. Some of these old posts document some really great quotes I’ve heard from random people over the years. Here are a few highlights: “I died in Spring and was resurrected in Winter.” – guy…

  • update and our founding fathers

    I discovered the other day that WordPress 1.5 has been released and so I upgraded my blog, Blacksheep to it. So far I’m loving it. It has a “static pages” function which I’m using to create a project gallery. Very cool. And it has some really good comment spamifiers, which will be utilized, for sure.…

  • The First Amendment and public libraries

    I’ve been thinking about John’s comment: “The first amendment does not entitle one to a taxpayer-supported avenue of expression.” and I’ve been really bothered by it. I think F**k walmart is right, It does sound a little bit fascist to me – when you take that statement to it’s logical conclusion. I mean, the first…