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: thoughts

  • On frustration and moving on

    I’ve been working on the Pomatomus sock pattern this past week. It’s been frustrating for me. There is something about the pattern where my brain kind of forgets to add the yarn over several rows in a row and then at some point I realize that I have, like, six fewer stitches than I am…

  • Mind blowing

    Okay. so I am weeding the non-fiction VHS tapes right now. As I am doing this I’m considering how many times a video has been watched. I can look at the record and see how many times it has checked out, but I am guessing that when it gets to somebody’s home it is watched…

  • Some thoughts about housing prices in San Jose

    My husband and I had quite a few conversations about the price of housing in the Bay Area while we were down there. They were spurred by the price of a house for sale down the street from his parent’s house, where he grew up. There is nothing extremely special about the neighborhood. I mean,…

  • A tribute

    I wanted to post a link to this lovely tribute to Ilene Rockman in Reference Services Review. You can get to it by clicking here. Thanks to Fred to sending it to me 🙂

  • This is why fundamentalism is bad

    Okay, this is way beyond out of control: A Pakistani Muslim cleric and his followers offered rewards amounting to over $1 million for anyone who killed Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of the Prophet Mohammad that have enraged Muslims worldwide. The cleric offered the bounty during Friday prayers as Muslim anger against the cartoons flared…