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: My Life

  • One Second A Day – 2014

    Here is my One Second A Day video for 2014! What a wonderful year. I meant to post this last night but doing the final edits took forever and eventually I fell asleep on the couch as I waited for it to upload to Youtube. Raf woke me up at midnight so we could ring…

  • There are good years and bad years. This was a very good year.

    There are good years and bad years. This was a very good year.

    It is that time of year. Yes. it is time for the “end of the year reflect on the past year” blog post. Up front, I have to say that 2014 was just so excellently good. I honestly can’t think of a bad thing from this past year. It was good in so many ways.…

  • CraftyMoni’s cure for the November blues

    CraftyMoni’s cure for the November blues

    November is a difficult month for me.  For the past five years the modus operandi has been to fall into a groove of grief that turns into a depression that becomes very difficult to dig my way out of.  I started to find myself in that familiar, depressing, place about a week ago. Somehow, something…

  • Untitled post 20778

    “The most dangerous distractions are the ones you love, but that don’t love you back.” James shared a really great article with me in the comments of my post from yesterday.  It has me thinking about my list. The idea from the article is to limit yourself to 5  goals. Anything else is a waste…

  • How I want to spend my free time

    How I want to spend my free time

    write Read (1 hour every day) Practice ukulele (go through that Bluegrass Ukulele book I bought 3 years ago) Draw (go through the “Drawing on the Right Side Of The Brain” workbook I bought 4 months ago) Knit (Already doing – in the morning with coffee) Photography (of course) Running/yoga (alternate days) Meditate (20 minutes…