JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

…may be the stroller! From the Seattle Times earlier this week: African moms carry on with tradition: NAIROBI, Kenya — Irene Wambui can’t imagine why anyone would buy a baby stroller. She says she sees it as a cold cage filled with useless rattles, cup holders and mirrored headlights. Imagine children being stuffed into such […]

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Sitting outside on the deck in spring sunshine feeding dried fruit to my baby. All she wants are raisins. I pick them up from the bag of trail mix one by one, selecting them carefully, and put them in her mouth, like a mother bird. The raisins are large and chewy. My baby is happy. […]

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An interesting post yesterday by Jane Galt at Asymmetrical Information. The comments are good too. I have to say I’ve never considered the effect of my choice to stay at home with my children on our national GDP. It’s fun for me to apply what she wrote to my own situation: First she quoted from […]

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Ted and I entered into parenthood with deliberation and intention. We read books, discussed philosophies, observed others, asked questions. Ever since birth, we’ve considered how we were teaching our child, what she was learning from us, how we were shaping her. At night sometimes we evaluate how our parenting going and change directions if necessary. […]

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I mean it in a good way. Let me explain…

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