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: death

  • Molly Ivins

    I just now heard on the radio that Molly Ivins died yesterday. I’m totally heartbroken. Syndicated columnist and best-selling author Molly Ivins has died of breast cancer at the age of 62. She was one of my heroes for standing up and telling it like it is. With humor and grace. May she rest in…

  • the berries are dead

  • 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…

  • A tribute

    I wanted to post a link to this lovely tribute to Ilene Rockman in Reference Services Review. You can get to it by clicking here. Thanks to Fred to sending it to me 🙂