JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Thanks again to Grandma, we made it to the movie theater on the last night of Spidey 2’s island run. I liked this second movie better than the first one although I am grateful we had rented the DVD recently. The characters wrestled and changed more, the heroes and villains grew deeper in dimensions, the […]

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Anil Dash wrote a wisful and passionate farewell to the city he loves and left and in the midst of his memories he described what a mango can mean. In the little town where I’d grown up, mangos had only shown up in the local grocery store a few years earlier, being considered an ethnic […]

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One of the stops on our shopping tour today was a Bainbridge boutique that was having a special discount sale. I don’t often shop on the island. Many of the stores feature clothes that don’t go well with playdough. They don’t fit well on park playdates bending over babies or into a budget featuring stay-at-home-mommies. […]

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I sense a new trend in blogging: Blogging Wives leave Blogging Husbands to care for Children while traveling thousands of miles to attending Blogging Conferences. Or perhaps it is that Blogging Husbands offer to watch Children so that Blogging Wives can escape on an airplane for a weekend. Hurray for Lisa’s Dear Husband and colleagues! […]

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The other day I wrote a post describing family planning, fertility and the choices women must make. In the comments, Janelle shared some of her own story of motherhood. I was grateful for what she wrote, and as I thought more about it and considered other angles to the issues, going through the day, I […]

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