JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Here are my notes from reading Emancipating Slaves, Enslaving Free Men: A History of the American Civil War by Jeffrey Rogers Hummel. I had to return the book to the library, so I apologize for the skeleton sketches. What I’ve posted here is a combination of my own summary (written in first person) combined with […]

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A paperback copy of Cry the Beloved Country by Alan Paton has been at our home for years. Ted brought it into our marriage with him, a gift from a former girlfriend, yet neither one of us had read it. So I took it along on our roadtrip to LA. I finished the story the […]

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Last week I heard a report on NPR’s Day to Day Bloggers Influence the Publishing Industry, describing the impact book blogs are having on the publishing industry. I don’t read book blogs but maybe I should. It sounded like the literary blogs had found a solid niche since other publications only cover books promoted by […]

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On my way home from the conference, I read Blue Like Jazz by Donald Miller. It’s a book that friends gave to us, a story of nonreligious thoughts, experiences and spiritual journey. I think part of my problem is that I want spirituality to be more close and more real. I understand why people wear […]

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On Sunday morning, after I learned my flight was delayed, I found inspiration on the Choi’s kitchen countertop and decided I should head to my favorite Chinese grocery store in Cupertino to pick up some treats for my daughters… Later I realized that I had now officially started a tradition. On the Sunday after BloggerCon […]

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