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

  • Jesus on the Half-Pipe

    The New York Times > Travel > Escapes > Jesus on the Half-Pipe Interesting little NYT article about evangelical sk8 boarders. This is how I met my husband, at Skate Church. I had a friend who was a “counselor” there and he invited me one night. My husband (and his two brothers) were avid skaters…

  • More on “the neighboor”

    Well, I don’t know if I feel so bad about our neighboor getting kicked out now…. When I got home from work Raf told me that our landlord called and told him to put in writing all of the problems that we had with our neighbor and her psycho friends. She told him that it’s…

  • The wierdness continues

    Strange happenings are going on at my apartment, as I’ve written about before. Well, it continues. This morning I got up at my usual time, around 5:30ish (well, maybe it was more like 5:45) and went into the living room to do my excercise tape that I do every morning. When I went in there…

  • When a stranger calls.

    Hmmmm. When I came home from work at about 6:30 Raffa came outside to tell me that the strange man came back at about 5:40. Our upstairs neighboor was the one who saw him. She said that he mumbled something about “Julie has his things” and then he stared toward our door. Our neighboor was…

  • A strange night

    I had a really weird and scary experience last night. At around 1:30 am I awoke to a knocking sound. I thought I was dreaming, and it kind of took me awhile to figure out what the sound was. It was this “tap tap tap” in intervals. I realized that someone was tapping on our…