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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  • Friday Random 10

    Today Amanda is playing along! yay! Go check out her Random 10. If you want to play, put your mp3 player or iTunes player on random and blog the first 10 songs. Here we go: Red Hill Mining Town. U2. The Joshua Tree. A song from my High School years. Reminds me that I need…

  • Travel Horror Story, Pt. 2

    If you haven’t read the first part of this adventure story you can find it here. So, while I was in Spokane, visiting over Christmas, it snowed. I mean it really snowed. It was actually kind of fun, though. Living in California, I hadn’t seen snow in ages. So I borrowed some warm winter clothes…

  • Nancy Grace Sued Over Woman’s Suicide

    Good for them. The family of Melinda Duckett, a Florida woman who shot herself to death after being forcefully questioned by CNN’s Nancy Grace about her son’s disappearance, sued the network and the Headline News host on Tuesday, claiming they bear responsibility for her death. I hope she is sued for every dime she’s worth…

  • Travel horror story

    Lolly asked if we had our own nightmare travel story after an especially awful flight out of San Francisco. Oooh boy. Do I ever have a doosy. It was a Christmas trip. I was traveling home to Spokane from San Jose. And it was several years ago. This happened when I was still a Nanny,…

  • America is addicted to oil

    Green Day has a public service message: Check out greendaynrdc.com for more info! Thanks to Jamison @ Daffodil Lane for posting this. And I just have to say, Billy Joe looks SO much better without the eyeliner.