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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  • Where’s the most beautiful beach you’ve ever seen?

    Any beach at Sunset.

  • On New Wave Music in the Eighties

    “If the singer is German, it’s new wave, unless it’s The Scorpions. If you think the singer is German, but he’s really not, then that’s an extraordinarily rarefied level of new wave, and probably means a kind of new-wave satori has been reached.” – Rob Sheffield in Talking to Girls About Duran Duran. I am so enjoying…

  • Creative Spaces Are Holy Places

    Another one from the Flickr archives. Taken one year ago at the Chinese Gardens in Portland when a friend was visiting. Interesting to happen upon this today of all days when I am feeling an almost desperate need to get in touch with my creative side. I have been feeling very blah lately. I get…

  • Wayback Wednesday

    A black and white self portrait I took when I was a nanny in Menlo Park, CA. I am in the fabulous house that I lived in, sitting on the fab couch. Those were the days. I don’t think I realized how good I had it at the time. For a time I tried to…

  • Plinky Prompt: Name your top 5 writers

    Favorite Writers 1. Cormic McCarthy 2. Jess Walters 3. Ian Mcewan 4. Margarat Atwood 5. Jennifer Egan So are we talking people who are still alive? Cause that’s what popped into my mind when I wrote those. There so, so many authors that are my favorites. I could never write down just five. Here are…