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.

Category: Life

It’s mostly what this blog’s about.

  • Wayback Wednesday

    Me and my friend, Heidi in 1992. I was 22. I had just finished my stint as a nanny in New York and was in between jobs, on my way to California. I want to say that this was taken the day I got my first tattoo. Honestly, though, I don’t know. I do remember…

  • Write an hourly journal for not less than 24 hours.

    7/26/2012 3:48pm Scouring the intertubes for blog post ideas. Found this one! I will try it. 4:38 pm Ordering books for the collection and worrying about the anti-Christian-god blog post I just wrote and published. 5:32 Placed an order with Amazon for children’s music CD’s. Screwed up the order. sigh. do I fix it now?…

  • wayback wednesday

    This photo was taken in 1998 when my mom and little brother came to visit us in Santa Cruz. We lived in Family Student Housing and the view from that window there looked out into the Pacific Ocean. It was amazing.

  • Smoked Salmon

    It’s funny how things work out sometimes in ways you don’t expect. Sometimes this happens in big ways and your whole life may change. Sometimes it happens in little ways and your day changes. Today I had the latter experience. We decided to drive to Wahclella Falls on the Columbia Gorge for a short jaunt,…

  • We found one

    For something to do, we thought we would check out the Wildwood Trail in Portland. There is a half marathon on it later this year that I thought might be fun to run and we have never been there. It really is a beautiful park and almost hard to believe that it is right in…