JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Last week I went shopping at the island Safeway for the first time in a month. Walking into the store, I noticed the background music playing. Often I am irritated by the older pop tunes: I’d rather forget some of the years of my youth and painful memories associated with certain songs. But the voice […]

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One of Robert Scobles’ brother-in-laws is the Bard of the Buses in Wales. Keyvan Ghaemmaghami (pictured) is just as likely to dash you off a love poem as he is to issue a return to Bettws. He is the Bard of the Buses, always ready with a cheery smile, and if you don’t like one […]

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Oh, I mistyped that. How about a large glass beer and fries? Last week the girls and I saw artist John Miller fashioning a french fry at the the Museum of Glass in Tacoma … He has also made enormous beer glasses, as shown in the screen above, and other oversized items from a diner. […]

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Thanks to Anita Rowland’s suggestion in a comment on a previous post I wrote, the girls and I visited the Museum of Glass in Tacoma last week. While there I also thought of Lenn Pryor and my brother, glass-blowers I know, wondering what their opinion would be of the place. The best pieces – in […]

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I don’t often drink soda. The other day at a party we enjoyed some Jones Cream Soda so I bought one on Monday at the grocery store. Inside the bottlecap it read You will soon receive an invitation to a sporting event. And later that night, I did! When I went to look at the […]

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