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.

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  • A semi-buzzed story about my new tattoo

    Why hello there! I didn’t mean for so much time to go by before I blogged. The past two weeks kind of creeped up on me and whizzed by. Thanks for the birthday wishes! I’m now really truly officially into my forties. And, honestly, it kind of feels weird. But good too. But dudes. There’s…

  • Me

    I found out yesterday that I won a photography contest! This photo here will be the opening photo for the family section of this year’s Inlander Annual Manual. I’m so exited! I didn’t even enter the contest with that photo. They just happened to see it on the Spokane! Photoroll stream on Flickr and liked…

  • On missing Santa Cruz

    Sometimes I feel like I am living in an alternate universe. It’s as if I walked through a wormhole and I ended up in Spokane while my other self is still living in Santa Cruz. Sometimes I can feel my other self when I think about Santa Cruz. I will focus on a certain aspect…

  • 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…

  • On being a cog in the machine

    Did I mention that I really like Natalie Goldberg? I do. Today I read about how she has dozens of notebooks filled with crap from when she lived in Taos and felt like she had nothing to write about but she wrote anyway because somewhere under that surface ennui there is something that needs to…