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

  • Book Review Saturday: Story of a Girl

    Story of a Girl by Sara Zarr was another contender for the National Book Award this year. It’s the story of a girl (heh) who has a past. A girl with a bad past. At the young age of 13, Deanna is caught by her father having sex in a car with her brother’s best…

  • Photography Friday

    Photography Friday

  • Where I Find Spirituality

    Today I’m am choosing topic #21. Where I find spirituality I have been on a search for spirituality from the time I was a wee child. I’m just that kind of person. I’ve always been interested in things “not of this earth.” I was raised Catholic, and was forced to go to attended church every…

  • Current event Wednesday: mmmm. chocolate…

    Criminy I’m having a bad day! sigh. I need to think about something nice. Like Chocolate! Did you know that the South Americans were eating Chocolate more than 3,000 years ago? New research shows that they were: Residents of Central America were enjoying chocolate drinks more than 3,000 years ago, a half millennium earlier than…

  • The night I injured my knee

    The Story of My Most Serious Injury. I have a couple of stories I could tell. But I think I will tell you about the time I tore the meniscus of my right knee. It’s kind of a good story. I was out on a first date with a guy who proved to be a…