JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

The two blogs I am checking first this week whenever I sit down at my desk are Jenny’s and Lenn’s. Both are bloggers, both are friends of mine and both are expecting babies to arrive in their families any day now. (note: Jenny headed to the hospital early this morning – wow!) Somehow I feel […]

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Laura described the restlessness of snow days spent at home: When the class parent called this morning to announce the cancellation of school, she groaned. “What am I going to do with them today?,” the parent wondered. I have dressed and undressed the kids three times for the outside; shoveled the driveway; did a puzzle; […]

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Judith Warner’s Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety with its recent excerpt in Newsweek ( Mommy Madness) and review in The New York Times(‘Perfect Madness’: The Mommy Trap) generated a range of passionate responses from resonance to revulsion. I experienced two extremes of the spectrum within myself. Warner’s thoughts along with insights from […]

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I didn’t post my results from the personality survey Beth Grigg linked last week because I didn’t like them. I scored strong in emotions and intellect, but also strong in dutifulness. Duty. I don’t like that word. It brings to mind a robot executing orders or a legalist lacking love. I do have a dutiful […]

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I didn’t think of this one One reason to teach your children sign language via Gentle Breezes glimpse inside another world The Children of HAN in Somaliland what else did girls think of? Through Don Boudreaux I learned about a book I want to read, Girls Think of Everything and Margaret Knight, the mother of […]

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