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: Stories

  • A Halloween Story

    One Halloween when I was around 10 years old instead of Trick-or-Treating my mom decided to throw a Halloween party for all of the neighborhood kids. My little brother and I were friends with every kid in the neighborhood, so the party was huge. There were kids everywhere. My parents invited their friends over, too.…

  • A bird and a dog

      Last Monday I was sitting under a tree at Manito Park knitting (while Raf was running). This little gull came right up to me and just kind of hung out near me. I thought he was so cute so I took a picture. Right after I took this I heard a loud splash and…

  • Nature’s fireworks

    We had the freakiest, most awesome lightening storm last night! It started around 10 o’clock, and at first I thought it was the fireworks since I was told they start at 10:00. Raf went outside and came back in and said, “It’s a thunderstorm!” So I went out there and watched it for a while.…

  • A story about Mr. Potatohead

    A story about Mr. Potatohead

      The place that I last worked at, SCU’s Orradre Library, had a thing about Mr. Potatohead. I believe it started out with a book that somebody found in the stacks called something like, “the history of the potato.” This person brought the book to a little once-a-month staff gathering called “Spin-it-in-a-minute” to share. A…

  • More Post Falls and update

    More Post Falls and update

      Here is another picture of Post Falls that I took Sunday. We are going to look at another house this morning at 9:00. I will update later today.