JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Hey, instead of watching skating this weekend, we could be watching skiing…. Today is the day Conconully, Washington holds the 22nd Annual Outhouse Race…hey, how well can you ski with your head in a bucket? Such efforts of duct tape and twine certainly are worthy of awards. I don’t often post about outhouses, but I […]

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I am planning to write a post later about the United States Figure Skating Championships this week (to be televised on ABC Saturday). But after reading news from the competition, I want to express my sorrow. Skater Angela Nikodinov and her family were traveling in a shuttle from the Portland airport when a car accident […]

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David Brooks essay in the New York Times earlier this week The New Red Diaper Babies [ found via Instapundit] pushed a few buttons with me. I don’t like labels and I don’t think we Leungs are necessarily natalists. We only have three children, not an entire basketball team. I don’t think I am as […]

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My original title for this post was going to be : My life must be miserable. Last week I read a study published in the New York Times [via Brian Chin’s Buzzworthy blog] titled What Makes People Happy? TV, Study Says. A team of psychologists and economists is reporting today what many Americans know but […]

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Since I read Rayne’s post Absolutely NOT Negotiable I haven’t stopped thinking about it. She quoted Congress Funds Psychological Tests for Kids The federal bill on its face does not require mandatory mental health testing to be imposed upon states or local schools, explained Serkes. However, the HHS appropriations bill contains block grant money that […]

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