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: 2007

  • A little rant about copyright

    First of all, thanks for all of the well wishes. I’m feeling a bit better. Not 100% but I’m back at work at least. I have next week off so I’m hoping I will get some nice R&R to really kill this virus that I have. Okay. I need to rant a little bit about…

  • Holes by Louis Sachar.

    I finished reading Holes by Sachar (1999) last week. I absolutely loved it. I think it’s my favorite Newberry winner so far. If you haven’t read it, it’s about a boy, Stanley, who is sent away to a correctional camp in Texas called Camp Green Lake. Only there is no lake, and it’s certainly not…

  • The neocons are worried about Gore’s electricity bill? ugh.

    I have been pulling my hair out the past few days at the latest in the Neocon’s dispicable antics. That is, to call Al Gore a hypocrite because his electricity bill is high. There are so many things wrong with this attack. So many things. First of all, it’s so obviously an attempt to swift-boat…

  • Frozen pond

    Frozen pond

      The pond in my backyard. This photo was published in the Spokesman Review yesterday!

  • the three little pigs

    This week my story time theme is wolves, and I am looking over some of the classic fairy tales. As I was searching around I found a lot of versions of The Three Little Pigs, so I thought it would be interesting to read the classic version and then read a couple of the retellings…