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: family history

  • The Curve of Time by M. Wylie Blanchet

    Enjoyment is always greatest when you have enough contrast to measure it by. – M. Wylie Blanchet (The Curve of Time) I’ve been meaning to blog more about some of the great books I’ve read this year. Some of them are kind of obscure and I feel the need to share them. One of those…

  • The pepper

    The dinner dishes are piled perilously in the sink as M- and I get ready to do our evening chore. Washing and drying the dishes. “I’ll dry and you wash.” I say. “No, I want to dry. You wash!” M- counters. And so the evening’s verbal ping-pong match begins. We go back and forth, bouncing…

  • Family ghosts

    Family ghosts

    We finally got a nice day on Monday so we went out hiking and I brought my camera. I got some nice shots of the forest moss. The sun was out for a few hours and then it clouded up in the afternoon and we were back to being gray and dreary. Oh well. Such…

  • Write about a less than remarkable aspect of yourself

    I feel like I am very boring. I get up at 5:30 am, like an old person does. I go to bed at 9:00 at night. Sometimes I am so tired I go to bed at 8:30. It’s kind of embarrassing. I wish I was the kind of person who could stay up late into…

  • The house on Warren Road

    The house I lived in when I grew up was split level. The yard was very large. We would often play in the front yard. we would have races in the yard to see who was the fastest runner in the family. When you walked in the front door and looked to the right you…