JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Like a cool drink of water when you’re worn out and weary is a letter from a long-lost friend. Yesterday Lenn Pryor wrote a post on Blogs, Links, Old Friends, New Friends … The Power of Connections, describing how blogging has brought new friends into his life and also connected him with pals from the […]

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What do you do if you enjoy someone’s blog/writing but you’ve never met the writer? How do you introduce yourself? I got the chance to meet Andrew Grumet a couple weeks ago, and I think it might have been a little less awkward if I had simply said, “Hey, can I join your fan club?” […]

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Yesterday around 6 pm we lost power and it didn’t return until after 3 am this morning. There were moments of pretending we were in some sci-fi adventure – beeping (the UPS) before going “off the air”, brushing teeth “while we still have light”, being strategic with the time… Then there were moments as if […]

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One idea I heard tossed around at BloggerCon included creating password-protected blogs, or having categories/entries that only specific people would see. Yesterday I realized that I need to keep certain entries on this blog away from certain readers. You never know where someone’s mind is going to go and I saw so clearly how this […]

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Scheherazade – whom I met briefly at BloggerCon – has written a post explaining Billable Hours. I’m fairly unfamiliar with the world of law but we have friends who are practicing attorneys, and at this wee-children stage of life, work hours can become a big issues. So I appreciate her descriptions of the difficulties and […]

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