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.

Month: April 2013

  • those little hearts

    When I was a nanny in Menlo Park, California (many years ago) the family that I worked for had a little white cat named Rajah. A month after I started they brought her home when she was a just a wee little kitten. All white with a black spot on her head and green eyes.…

  • Fun with a cardboard camera

    Over the weekend I was doing some spring cleaning. It was with great delight that I found this. If you didn’t click that link, what you missed was a photo of a pinhole camera kit. My husband bought it for me 3 or 4 years ago. I remember looking through the instructions at the time…

  • You can’t hold back the sunrise.

    I mentioned that a couple of photos from my film swap with Mr. AwareoftheVoid really stand out for me. I wanted them to have their own blog post. This is one of them. I feel like it doesn’t need a blathery exposition because it kind of speaks for itself. And maybe I should just shut up and let…

  • Six word saturday

    Need more ukulele in my life.

  • Friday Random 10 – National Poetry Month edition

    I haven’t done a Friday Random 10 in a very long time. I found this old post and thought for National Poetry Month, it would be interesting to combine the two ideas. So here is the idea: Put your music player on random. Blog the first 10 songs that come up. Then make a kind…