Blatherskite

Foolish gibberish

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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: Random

Just random crap. Foolish gibberish.

  • Floodgates are open. Let it flow.

  • My blog in 2012

    I found this New Years post the other day and thought it would be fun  to try it for this year. Here are the “rules” are for the post: Copy the first sentence(s) from the first blog post you made each month. Provide explanatory context if needed. I think I’ll skip the explanation and see…

  • The worst Christmas song ever written

    A couple of years ago the Mr. and I were having a discussion about Christmas songs and we observed that there are some truly awful ones. For example, Jingle Bells. It’s all fine and dandy for the first few stanzas but eventually it takes a turn for the  awful: A day or two ago I…

  • Six Word Saturday

    Just another day after dooms day.

  • Drum Circles, and other random thoughts

    Last night I went to a solstice celebration.  We arranged ourselves in a circle and one by one we walked up to an altar and lit a  candle. Then we took a percussion instrument from a basket and went back to our seat where we joined the drumming started by Susie, the officiator. The room…