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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  • magnetic poetry

    magnetic poetry

    For several years we had a Magnetic Poetry set on our refrigerator door. It was fun to throw together a poem from time to time, and it was fun to see what Raf would surprise me with. We threw the set away when we moved away from Santa Cruz and never thought to buy a…

  • a verbal exchange with a patron

    “The shortest distance between two points is a straight line, but what is the longest distance between two points?” “I don’t know…” “A short-cut.”  

  • This is currently the most-played song on my iPod

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fPX2nUMns6g What’s yours?

  • 43

    43

    Today is my birthday. I am going to spend it at the Portland Art Museum, enjoying art. Then I’m going to the Downtown Library to finally get my Multnomah County Library card. I told a friend at work that I hadn’t yet been inside the downtown library and she was absolutely shocked and insisted I…

  • Things found in books

    While moving we handled eleventy-billion books and in the process found all sorts of interesting things inside of them. At the end of the day I arranged them and took a photo. Here is a gallery of some of the things we found. I am thinking about making this a regular thing on my blog.…