JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

From an article in today’s Seattle Times American families’ plight: Lives structured to a fault Scientists at UCLA have spent the past four years observing 32 Los Angeles families in a study of how working America somehow gets it done. Day after day. […] In 1,600 hours of digital video, scientists captured moments of unfiltered […]

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After reading a number of Robert Scoble’s links to the Blog of Death, I decided to subscribe to it myself. Perhaps this may be an example of how to convince others to read a certain blog: link often to it, and ensure that the blog has unique and valuable content. Death may be a morbid […]

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From an article in Thursday’s Seattle Times: Group prepares for an African homecoming in Kenya: It was on the group’s first visit, in 2000, that a Kenyan woman put a question to Arunga and her companions. “She said, ‘You call yourselves African Americans. Where in Africa do you come from?’ ” recalls Arunga, 46. “Because […]

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It can be dangerous not to know hamster anatomy. Katy Lee and their family now have eight more hamsters than they did earlier this month. The babies sound cute and the parents prolific. The Lees have had a few birth dates in their household this month, including Elliot’s (another blogger) and Katy’s herself, on our […]

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Yesterday I called the Washington state legislative hotline – 1-800-562-6000 – to express my opposition to a potential bill that would affect homeschooling options. I confess that this is the first time I’ve phoned the hotline but it won’t be my last. It was easy to do: with a few moments spent standing in my […]

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