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.

Author: Moni

  • This is my new favorite song.

    Totally digging that disco beat. The video is interesting, too. Safe and Sound by Capital Cities.

  • What is ego? Oh. That. Ouch.

  • Friday Random 10 – National Poetry Month Edition

    I have started doing FR10s for this month because I had an idea for a kind of “found poem.” I am blogging the first ten songs that come up randomly on my iPhone and then making a poem out of the first lines of each song. The first one was kind of a dud, but…

  • The Moth’s Serenade by Paul Fleischman

    The Moth’s Serenade by Paul Fleischman

    Goodness, I am in a very chatty mood this month. I am full of all sorts of blog posts. Here is a poem I recorded the day before yesterday with my colleague. We are performing this together at a poetry slam at the library I work at.

  • 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.…