JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Ted and I have intense projects right now. He’s burning midnight oil – and early morning oil too – while my strategy is to rise with the sun. Last night I think I woke at 4 am but Ted was not in the bed yet. I woke again after 5 : this time he was […]

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So reads the large warning label on the can of stain I am using…. Avoiding Spontaneous Combustion certainly sounds like something we should do…or should we? After all, what would happen if we allowed ourselves to explode with laughter? What would happen if we opened the door to joy? How would it to feel to […]

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Today my mom and a friend stopped by our house, after spending the weekend out on the coast. Grandma returned with a story to tell the girls: They had found a live starfish lying upside down on a beach, its tube feet clogged with rocks. Mom wanted to rescue the creature, and since she did […]

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From conversations today with our daughters… note: Abigail is 5 and Michaela is 2 Abigail and Michaela set the dinner table with our favorite jars of spicy condiments: chili bean sauce from Lee Kum Kee and chili relish from Patak’s Abigail : It says W W W Michaela : W W W web Abigail: No, […]

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A couple weeks ago, Reptile Man came to the Bainbridge Library , sharing his assortment of snakes and other creatures with a standing-room-only crowd of children. Despite DVDs, CDs, video games and all sorts of animated toys that perform on demand, still nothing can compete with the thrill of seeing live reptiles creeping across the […]

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