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.

Year: 2006

  • Impeach Bush

    Christie sent me this article yesterday: ABC News: Vermont Towns Endorse Move to Impeach Bush In five Vermont communities, a centuries-old tradition of residents gathering in town halls to conduct local business became a vehicle to send a message to Washington: Impeach the president. I find it very interesting that entire towns are voting for…

  • “Gay” Penguin book

    Mandrake pointed me to this article: A children’s book about two male penguins who raise a baby penguin has been moved to the nonfiction section of two public library branches after parents complained it had homosexual undertones. You can read the article here: ‘Gay’ penguins book frozen out in Missouri libraries This is kind 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 🙂

  • absence

    I apologize for my absence the past week. This past week has been crazy. First of all, I’ve been sick with the flu. Then, when I came into work on Monday and Tuesday I had to train the person taking over my job, then the rest of the week I had to get used to…

  • The vegetarian store

    So Raf and I have been hearing about this ABC Vegetarian outlet advertised on the Air America affiliate here and were stoked to find out about it. We are no longer vegetarians, but while living in Santa Cruz got used to visiting the many local vegetarian-friendly grocery stores (and there are LOTS of them there).…