JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Saturday morning, while researching the Spanish smallpox vaccination program after our trip to the Seattle Art Museum exhibit, I found an educational site (from a distance learning program in Medical Laboratory Technology) that described how the disease changed national boundaries( bold emphasis mine). Evidently smallpox again was used as a biowarfare weapon in 1775-76. The […]

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On Friday the girls and I went to the Seattle Art Museum’s exhibit: Spain in the Age of Exploration. Going through the tour guided by the children’s audioclips took us about one hour. I think that two or more hours could easily be spent enjoying the display. The girls favorite pieces were the armor. I […]

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Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your strength. These commandments that I give you today are to be upon your hearts. Impress them on your children. Talk about them when you sit at home and when you walk along the road, when you lie […]

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I was shocked last week when I turned on NPR’s All Things Considered and heard Tom Wolfe describing various college student behaviors: Tom Wolfe Goes to College with ‘Charlotte Simmons’. I wasn’t shocked by the behaviors themselves. I was shocked that I recognized the terms used, such as “sexile”. As a married mom of three, […]

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Especially after Abigail’s interruptions to our romantic interlude the other night, I’ve been thinking about pictures that I would want to be deleted if I died. During the holiday season, I also think about my brother, who passed away five years ago this December, and the pile of photographs I have of him. In the […]

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