JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

This week The Seattle Times has run a series describing Dot-con job: How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride At its peak, InfoSpace was the Northwest’s biggest Internet business, worth more than $31 billion. Jain, a man obsessed with being more successful than Bill Gates, was himself worth $8 billion. He bought a palatial […]

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In the land before time, in the Redmond before Microsoft, horses ran through fields along the side of the road. The girl would watch them from the van as her mother drove her baby brothers and her home through the boundary of Bellevue. Seeing the horsies in their pastures was the delight of her day. […]

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This week has been intense for me emotionally. First the adrenaline roller coaster ride of participating in a conference, giving it all I’ve got, and receiving other’s responses to what I had shared from my family’s life. Then I came home Sunday night and read of writer Hunter S. Thompson’s suicide. More sorrow came to […]

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Yesterday as I was walking in the morning, a robin flew over me. For an instant I glimpsed red, the rest of the bird’s body pulled together tight in a smooth aerodynamic shape. It was as if the robin was in slow motion or if my eyes had become a camera with a slick shutter […]

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Sunday morning I read Robert Scoble’s link to Andrew Connell’s moblog celebrating the birth of his son. As Robert wrote: what’s a more important story than the birth of a new baby? Beautiful pictures. Next I read Amanda Witt’s link to Mariane Pearl’s piece in The Sunday Times describing life after the loss of her […]

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