JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

As the final installment to my series of why I didn’t become a doctor then why I didn’t become a hacker, I figured I should write about why I did do something in school: why I studied biochemistry. Inspiration for this story also came from Jay McCarthy’s comment in a post last month: This is […]

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This morning I downloaded Mike Walsh’s MP3 of the Berkman meeting last night and played it while the girls and I ate breakfast. It fun at first but it wasn’t too efficient for me and hard to hear as background sound: if I turned up the volume so I could hear whoever was talking, then […]

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Sometimes when something dies, it has been dying for a long time but no one knew. No one had noticed it was ill. The death seems sudden to us when in fact it has been slow. It seemed alive and vibrant when in secret it was sick and weak, quietly rotting. The other morning, when […]

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Bainbridge Island, where we live, is historically significant because it was the first place where Japanese-Americans, under Executive Order 9066, were forced to leave for internment camps during World War II. On the front page of today’s Seattle Times, the article WWII internments set Aleuts adrift from their islands discusses the experience of the Aleuts […]

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A friend loaned me a children’s book, Abe Lincoln Gets His Chance by Frances Cavanah (copyright 1959). It’s historical fiction, based on statements made by Lincoln and his family, the story of his boyhood. In this tale of a kid who was born nearly 200 years ago, I saw some things that seemed a bit […]

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