JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Our story of searching for dim sum (and other goodies) in Seattle’s International District last Friday. I rarely get to go for dim sum and now I’ve gone twice in two weeks: once in Seattle and once in Boston. Ted and I don’t often make the trip – only when Ted’s parents are in town […]

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In Tuesday’s Seattle Times, an article describing the new president of the University of Washington, Mark Emmert, has this quote: Emmert grew up in Fife near Tacoma…The family attended Fife Presbyterian Church, where Mark Emmert married his high-school sweetheart, DeLaine Smith. “My greatest accomplishment is staying married,” Emmert joked yesterday. I don’t think it is […]

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An article in Thursday’s Seattle Times described how genealogist Peri Muhich has researched The Mercer Girls, a group of young women who came from the East Coast to Washington state in 1864: The ratio of men to women in Seattle was 9 to 1 when Asa Mercer, president of Washington’s new Territorial University, first went […]

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I liked this picture from our ride on the ferry today. The tone of the sky, and also the buildings, was such a heavy blue gray. Color spoke to me. Blond hair. Bright vermilion of the Port of Seattle cranes. Yellow and green painted on a building at the Pier. On the way home, we […]

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Reading Friday’s paper, my heart ached and tears came into my eyes. Earlier this fall Gary Ridgway confessed to 48 murders, identifying himself as the Green River Killer. On Thursday he was sentenced to life in prison and the paper included a page filled of testimony excerpts, from families missing murdered loved ones. In the […]

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