JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

links and thoughts on organization and the new year During the holidays I baked a ham and I became a hamster. How else can I explain this constant cycle of cleaning clutter? I feel like a rodent on a wheel, running nowhere despite valiant efforts and hours of life spent sorting possessions, only to discover […]

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Scheherazade in two posts this week pondered risks not taken…. All Request Day: Girly Stuff: What do I consider failures thus far in my life? The answers that are most resonant involve boys. They’re not so much failures as much as missed opportunities, risks not taken. I should have taken the year after law school […]

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An oxymoron, or so it sounds, but I’ve read many refreshing phrases and clumps of sentences in the past day or two that I’d like to link and bookmark for the time being…gems I discovered in my aggregator and want to share with others…. Fred First saw A Certain Order So I am thankful for […]

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John Perry Barlow’s daughter, Amelia, suffered an intense accident while traveling in Europe earlier this month. His post told what it was like to visit her in Austria. We spent Christmas in the barrens of a German-speaking hospital, Amelia in pain and myself in panic, receiving no gifts beyond one another’s continued presence on this […]

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Just a Gwai Lo’s post A Complex Pinot Noir of Nervous Laughter Displaced by Expressions of Disbelief and Condenscension inspired me last night to try to plan for extra rest. Richard not only quoted in his blog the reaction the writer Mark Slouka received at a dinner party when he mentioned that he liked to […]

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