JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Michaela’s delight at watching her first Polaroid picture develop – at the dentist’s office. Each child visiting the dentist has a picture on the wall – and gets to update it at the next appointment. So far Abigail has a little collection of Polaroid photos from her first appointments. Polaroids provide good memories. I remember […]

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I spent Sunday morning “working on the streets” as a neighbor described it, pushing a broom against stubborn wedges of curbside mud, sweeping our neighborhood for part of our annual spring cleaning. Each year we sign up for shifts for a day – voluntarily- and take our turns weeding, mulching and tidying this community that […]

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I’m tempted to comment on TV Guide’s latest promotion with its oh-so-teasing peekaboo flap cover, but I’d only be repeating myself. [Sigh]. If only we had an extra $75,000 sitting around…

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Dean Esmay’s comment last night on The effects of fantasies reminded me of a snippet I’d heard on NPR Monday afternoon: TV shows feature plastic surgery. I think I was driving somewhere at the time and forgot to pursue what I had heard after I got home. What triggered the memory for me were Dean’s […]

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A couple weeks ago I found myself driving through Bellevue, taking the kids to a park. On the way we drove past where I had my first job, working at an independent burger joint, on an intersection of NE 8th Street, not too far from downtown. I was 15 at the time and my work […]

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