JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

The last time U2 released an album, I wasn’t a blogger. I was a bit less aware of the world than I am now. I wasn’t aware of All That You Can’t Leave Behind until it took over the Grammys. The most I listen to the radio is whenever I’m put on hold. So I […]

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Today’s newspapers contained photos of two different people we know. The Bainbridge Review’s entertainment section featured our neighbor Elizabeth Stoyanovich conducting the Bremerton Symphony whose season is starting soon. Last year we had fun at a Family Concert. This season two Family Concerts are offered: one in October and the other in February. This one […]

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Why I am a groupie…Okay, I’m not quite a groupie as I haven’t yet followed Scott and Christine Dente on tour by camping out in my car (although I’ve been tempted…). I haven’t yet tried to sneak backstage at a concert so my kids and I could play with their kids (although that sounds like […]

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Last night I took the girls to the symphony. The local county youth symphony. I heard about it from one of my homeschool yahoogroups: “free family entertainment”. Mozart, Mussorgsky, Pachelbel for free?! Hey, we’re going… Ted had already made a commitment to help a friend so I took the girls by myself. A bit of […]

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Just the other day I was making a list in my mind of all the Christine Dente songs that talk about time. Then I checked her web site and saw that she has posted another journal entry, this one about time, inspired by her fortieth birthday and woven from her lyrics. Children are brilliant refractors […]

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