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.

Tag: 100 days 2015

I am posting something on my blog every day from September 22 until December 31.

  • The Gift – An acrostic poem.

    Gathering dust In my closet, the Feathered boa sits like a Tin god waiting for it’s fabulous moment.   —————————————————————

  • Poetry 201- Day 1 – Haiku

    The wide world in the palm of my hand. I need new glasses. ———————————————-

  • Inktober

    Apparently there is this thing called Inktober, where artists dedicate the month of October to drawing with ink. This is perfect because I am currently in an ink drawing phase! here is something I drew the first day of October. I’ve been learning how to use Adobe Illustrator at work and I learned how to…

  • On becoming a vegetarian. Again.

    I thought for today’s post it would be interesting to take a look at what I was doing 10 years ago. It seems crazy that I can do this on my blog. It is more than 10 years old at this point! 10 years ago I was contemplating becoming vegetarian. Again. Crazy, because here I…

  • “And, of course, what’s also routine is that somebody, somewhere will comment and say, Obama politicized this issue. Well, this is something we should politicize. It is relevant to our common life together, to the body politic. I would ask news organizations — because I won’t put these facts forward — have news organizations tally…