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.

  • John Wayne

    I meet the most interesting people. Today I had a conversation about John Wayne. I mentioned that I had never seen a John Wayne movie in my entire life but thought I should rectify that situation since he is such an iconic figure. I also mentioned that John Wayne reminded me grandfather. The person I…

  • The window seat

    The window seat

    I was boarding the plane from Spokane to Portland on Monday morning and in a bad mood. The news about Osama Bin-Laden broke the night before and the partying-in-the-streets reaction to it had me feeling bummed out. Not to mention, I was tired from not getting any sleep at my mom’s house and sore from…

  • this has been a week

    My mom is in the hospital with pneumonia. She’s been in since Wednesday of last week. She came down with it two weekends ago when I was in Spokane visiting. We all thought it was the flu but it turned out to be much worse. A week ago today she ended up in ICU because…

  • I will follow you into the dark

    Twice yesterday the song “I Will Follow You Into The Dark” came on randomly. once on my ipod and once on the radio. The first time it played, I had to change the song after two measures. The sequence of chords at the beginning of the song instantly make my eyes well up with tears.…

  • 42

    Last night I had a dream that I was driving down a coastal highway with someone I’ve never seen before in real life. We were driving a minivan, a Volkswagon bus or something like that. The wind was blowing really hard (as it had been for real yesterday evening) and we could feel it hit…