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

  • Cake vs. Pie

    Moist Chocolate Cake Cake or Pie. That is a difficult choice. The answer depends on the mood I’m in and how stressed out I may be. At the moment I would have to go with cake. Chocolately chocolate cake. With extra chocolate.

  • My Theme Song

    Not the part about ransacking homes. The other stuff. If was being honest with myself.

  • 10 years later

    I choose to remember today by going about my life as normally as possible.  I would think that is the most appropriate way to respond to terrorism. – Dan from the blog, “Abnormality Locality.”

  • A Rant about cancer “awareness” on Facebook

    Every so often (Well, more than that. Like every other day) a status update will pop up on my Facebook feed that says something like this: Please do me a favor. Only some of you will do this and you know who you are. If you or anyone you know has battled (or died of)…

  • Mt. Saint Helens

    Mt. Saint Helens

    On my vacation a couple of weeks ago we decided to take a drive up to Mt. Saint Helens. I’d never been there before and have always wanted to check it out. The eruption of St. Helens in 1980 had quite an impact on me as a child (as it did for anyone who lived…