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: 2010

  • Creepy. Oh, and It’s National Poetry Month!

    Creepy. Oh, and It’s National Poetry Month!

    The weekend after my birthday Raf and I stayed in Ocean Park for the weekend. We spent some time walking around Oysterville, an old fishing village, and had a great time learning about all of the old houses. We discovered the Oysterville Graveyard and wandered around it for awhile. I took a few pictures of…

  • On Enjoyment.

    “Enjoyment is always greatest when you have enough contrast to measure it by.” – M. Wyle Blanchet. The Curve of Time.

  • A semi-buzzed story about my new tattoo

    Why hello there! I didn’t mean for so much time to go by before I blogged. The past two weeks kind of creeped up on me and whizzed by. Thanks for the birthday wishes! I’m now really truly officially into my forties. And, honestly, it kind of feels weird. But good too. But dudes. There’s…

  • A poem about turning 41

    My husband wrote me a Limerick about turning 41: In the town of Sandy, Oregon ‘Had a wife just turned 41 She’s as fancy as ever and equally clever and the yarn of her life’s just begun. I love that guy! 🙂

  • what a week!

    what a week!

    Raf and I went on an interesting hike at the Columbia Gorge last weekend. Again we found it in “100 hikes in Northwest Oregon” and it proved to provide us with all kinds mystery. Again. This time the hike referred to a trail that that barely existed. We finally found the trail by chance and…