JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

or maybe they are growing like the purple, blue and red flowers they painted on this board which we plan to use to mark and measure each girl’s height…as they grow through time…

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Heather Armstrong yesterday wrote: Last night we were at a neighborhood Christmas party when one of the neighbors I have never met walked up to Leta and me and asked how old she was. When I told him she was ten-months-old he asked if she was “walking all over the house” yet. I answered, simply, […]

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A term I learned from the latest issue of Technology Review, in an article that asked Can we trust people to know what makes them happy? From Technology and Happiness by James Surowiecki Take lottery winners. One famous study showed that although winners were very, very happy when they won, their euphoria quickly evaporated, and […]

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According to the last weather forecast I heard, it won’t be a white Christmas here. No snow. Yet it may be an equally rare day for December 25th in Seattle – a sunny one. Perhaps we should call it a blue Christmas instead… we’ve enjoyed excellent weather so far this week…apologies to those in colder […]

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Piles of wrapping materials – from tissue paper to newspaper to popcorn and “peanuts” – displayed on sale in stores, and then stuffed into trash cans on December 26th, reveal our intense efforts during the holiday season to protect and preserve what is fragile. Yet during these past few weeks and this past one in […]

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