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

  • In memoriam

    I’ve been kind of sad all day, thinking about the terrible events of September 11, 2001. It’s strange, some years I’ve said something about it on this blog, and some I haven’t.  For some reason this year it’s been on my mind. Dianne talked about what she was doing that day, as have some other…

  • Found

    Found by Margaret Peterson Haddix Jonah begins receiving strange letters with cryptic messages in the mail. He thinks it is a prank until his friend from school receives them also. They find out that they are two of a group of “missing” babies that were adopted out when a plane filled with them appeared mysteriously…

  • Serendipity

    Serendipity

    These plants are growing all over the place in Riverside State Park. I love the way they glow when the light hits them just right.

  • A word about Palin

    This is soooo last week but I’ve got to say it. WTF was McCain thinking with his V.P. Pick? I don’t understand it at all. I really don’t. I keep thinking that it has to be a joke, but it clearly isn’t. Aside from the complete bizarre-ness of it, it is wrong and insulting on…

  • False Start

    My week of knitting has had a false start. I cast on my second Water project for Project Spectrum, the Indigo Ripples skirt from IK Spring 2007. I worked on it for a couple of days and decided that I needed to start over. I can’t even recall why. Maybe I wanted to go down…