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.

Month: November 2007

  • Who am I kidding?

    I haven’t had time to do any kind of creative writing this week at all. God knows when I would ever be able to fit creative writing into my life. Instead, this week I am going to glean a topic from this wonderful list of topics to blog about. The topic I choose today: Why…

  • NaKniSweMo progess

    For NaKniSweMo I’m knitting a sweater with yarn that I bought at Artfibers a year and a half ago. When we were visiting Raf’s parents in San Jose Judy and I snuck up to San Francisco for the day. It was actually on St. Paddy’s day! So you can imagine what a riot SF was.…

  • Book Review Saturday: Touching Snow

    The National Book Award nominees were announced about a month ago and so I have been reading through the contenders for Young People’s Literature. So for this month I will tell what I thought of all of the National Book award nominations (for Young People’s Literature). Today’s book is Touching Snow by M. Sandy Felin.…

  • A plan of action

    Okay. So this is day two. and, umm, I don’t know wtf to write about. I’m staring at a blank text box. sigh. I need a plan. I think what I will do is each day post about a specific topic. I have lots of interests and this will be a way for me to…

  • NaNoBloMo. Day 1.

    So. Day 1 of blogging every day. Blogging with WORDS everyday. Not just pictures. This is going to be a challenge. I’m trying to decide what the hell I’m going to do for this month. I want to do something different. Something creative. So you may see things here that you haven’t seen before. Maybe…