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2022 Update

November 3rd, 2022 · No Comments

Adding a brief update here – much has happened since the days I posted on this blog regularly. I hope to return to this website soon with more to share. BIO Julie Jeanell Leung received her MFA in creative nonfiction from the Rainier Writing Workshop at Pacific Lutheran University. Her work has appeared in a […]

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“Moon Snails” published in the Bellingham Review

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments

The current issue of the Bellingham Review includes “Moon Snails”, a creative nonfiction piece I wrote describing the spirals of moon snails,  my brother,  my family, my body and the sea.  This week I am heading to the  NonfictionNow conference at the University of Iowa where I will appear on a panel put together by Bellingham […]

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Guinea Pig TV: Special Photography Episode

April 8th, 2008 · 2 Comments

It’s been busy here – and even the pets have been busy, creating a new episode of Guinea Pig TV, this one inspired by Ted’s passion for photography. Chatterboy is nearing retirement, so Truffles came to live with us soon after her birth on Christmas Eve. This new video includes three cavies: Chatterboy, Truffles and […]

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Living with injustice… and with grace

March 1st, 2008 · 9 Comments

I’ve been reluctant to begin blogging again because I know I can’t get started now without first saying I’m missing Anita Rowland. And I don’t think I can write about Anita and do it justice. I first met Anita through a trackback. It was a relationship based on blogging, with an electronic beginning. Back in […]

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My first sea slug

March 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Last month I saw this nudibranch on Bainbridge Island’s Rockaway Beach: the low tides are returning during daylight hours. One of my goals for 2008 beachcombing was to find my first wild sea slug. Later I was told by a nudibranch expert I know that this creature is usually found subtidal. The sea slug captured […]

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