Blatherskite

Foolish gibberish

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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: 2010

  • The pepper

    The dinner dishes are piled perilously in the sink as M- and I get ready to do our evening chore. Washing and drying the dishes. “I’ll dry and you wash.” I say. “No, I want to dry. You wash!” M- counters. And so the evening’s verbal ping-pong match begins. We go back and forth, bouncing…

  • A favorite poem

    To continue my little celebration of National Poetry Month I thought I’d read you one of my favorite poems, “Music Swims Back To Me” by Anne Sexton. http://vimeo.com/10749112 Years and years ago I bought a cassette tape (that is how long ago it was) of Anne Sexton reading her work (that is how much of…

  • Inside the Oysterville church

    Inside the Oysterville church

  • Oysterville

    Oysterville

    As I mentioned a couple of days ago, Raf and I went to one of our favorite places, Oceanside, WA last month. The Long Beach Peninsula in Washington State is a really funky place. I’ve been visiting it in the Summers for almost as long as I can remember. It is a collection of communities…

  • A poem I wrote

    http://vimeo.com/10647024 I wanted to participate in National Poetry Month so I made a video of myself reading a Pantoum I wrote last year. The poem is from an old letter I found in my mom’s genealogy files years ago. It was written to my grandmother when she was researching our family history and it is…