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: Current Events

  • “The windstorm of 2006″

    Yes, we had a windstorm last night that knocked out our power: More than 40,000 households in the Inland Northwest remain without power following a powerful wind storm that tore across the region Thursday night and this morning. The storm brought winds gusting to 68 mph and toppled hundreds of treesm including dozens that fell…

  • Thanks

    Thanks for all of your comments on the “WTF” post. A few days later I’m feeling less shock and more depressed. Hopefully this cloud will lift soon. So why am I so bothered by the James Kim death? I think it’s because I feel like it could have happened to me. It seems so random.…

  • WTF?

    This has been one strange day. One strange awful day. Here is how the things unfolded: First, as I’m taking the bus from the Downtown library to the South Hill library (I had a meeting this morning) I notice that there are a lot of kids mulling around the a high school that the bus…

  • Sad

    Totally heartbreaking. The body of a San Francisco man who had walked into the Oregon wilderness to summon help for his stranded family was found Wednesday in a steep ravine where he had left clues for searchers. Officials confirmed that James Kim, 35, an editor at the Web site CNET, had been found dead. A…

  • Hopeful

    This story has caught my attention the past couple of days. There is a search under way for James Kim, Cnet editor who went looking for help after his family got stuck in the mountains of Southern Oregon: After leaving Portland on Interstate 5, search leaders said, the couple missed a turnoff that leads to…