JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

“…Federal Way, Washington. He could probably get away with anything, it occurred to him. Anything in the world….” Fiction from Federal Way?! When I saw the Seattle Times review , I couldn’t resist requesting Matthew McIntosh’s first novel from the library. I especially enjoy reading what’s been written from my native Northwest, so despite the […]

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As a Northwest native, who headed off to college out East, at one point working – and even getting engaged – in New Hampshire, I enjoyed the opening of Mary Ann Gwinn’s book review in Sunday’s Seattle Times: Nicholas O’Connell’s survey of Pacific Northwest literature starts its journey in a place remote from its subject: […]

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Tomorrow at last we return the book Super Science Secrets . The girls and I have had fun with many of the ideas. The other day I covered candles with various sized jars and showed Abigail how flames need air in order to burn. She also had fun using a balloon to lift a book. […]

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On the advice of a friend, I read The Hurried Child by David Elkind, a professor at Tufts. This is the third edition, 2001, of a book originally published 20 years earlier: very updated with discussions on topics such as the Internet, “Lapware”, and Britney Spears’ appeal. It’s a book filled with many statistics, examples […]

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The same friend who recommended The Hurried Child , also wrote that I should read Raymond and Dorothy Moore’s Home Grown Kids , subtitled A Practical Handbook for Teaching Your Children at Home (looks like its now out of print). I confess I had a hard time getting through the first few chapters and this […]

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