JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

from yesterday On our way home from our friends, I thought we’d try to stop by an amateur astronomy meeting. At the high school parking lot, we found a small group setting up telescopes. Abigail introduced herself to one as “I’m 5 and a half” and the man replied “I’m 71 and a half.” Definitely […]

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The other day, as Abigail was putting her pile of laundry away, she decided to organize her dresser drawers. I had figured it wasn’t worthwhile to try to get young children to keep shirts and pants in tidy folds and rows. Since the girls, ages 5 and 3, were the ones taking the clothes in […]

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Via David Weinberger’s reporting from the SXSW conference, I learned about author Ethan Watters and Urban Tribes: Ethan Watters, author of Urban Tribes is talking about some anxieties he has about the current generation of youngsters. For example, this gen is delaying marriage longer than any in American history. They are, surveys show, more “out […]

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The other morning, Michaela got up and dressed herself in black and white checkered pants with red socks, red shirt and red fleece pull-over. I’m amazed at this child’s eye for color and fashion sense. She loves to run around wearing a bandana cocked in her hair. And her clothes almost always match in a […]

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In his Many-to-Many post Love, Technology and the Unspoken David Weinberger quoted from Christine Rosen’s essay “Romance in the Information Age” which appeared in The New Atlantis. I read the piece myself and thought it had some great insights into modern dating: But we have been “test driving” something: a new, technological method of courtship. […]

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