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

  • Snow! and LOTS of it

    We got some SNOW last night. Seriously. We got LOTS of snow. I tried to take pictures that could capture the amount of snow we got but I don’t know if I did. It was so deep that when I walked down the path to the garage (which I am so happy to have, btw)…

  • we really need to impeach the man

    Okay. I could go on and on with a rant on this. But we really, really need to impeach Bush. And not just because he lied to us. The man is a tyrant. And, for the good of our country, the good of the world for that matter, we need to get him out of…

  • On MLK and our corrupt government

    I was on the treadmill listening to Monday‘s edition of Democracy Now on my iPod. It was the episode about Martin Luther King. Amy Goodman interviews various people who were there at the scene, including the Reverend Jesse Jackson. It was a really touching episode. I actually was moved to tears at the end of…

  • the berries are dead

  • Skate by Michael Harmon

    The first novel of local writer, Michael Harmon, Skate takes place in Spokane, WA and is about the troubles of a skater-punk kid name Ian. His mother is a drug addict and is never home, so Ian is left to take care of his little brother, Sammy. As you can imagine, this gets very difficult…