JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Ronni Bennett in her rich blog Time Goes By: what it’s really like to get older shared a story in Learning Forever / Forever Learning On the afternoon of the third and final day of meetings, I was with the CEO in his office and in searching for some notes in my bag, I pulled […]

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I could play a guessing game with this picture, like Katherine did on her blog.( The answer actually would be similiar to hers…oops I’m giving something away!) Another homeschooling mom in our area offered frog eggs so the girls and I went to gather some. I had prepared a tank but soon realized I didn’t […]

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Plenty of baby books teach H is for Hippo, J is for Jaguar, K is for Kangaroo. While most suburban American children won’t need to be able to identify L is for Lemur, ring-tails can be common… At Vancouver’s Stanley Park, on our way to the aquarium Sunday afternoon, I unbuckled Elisabeth and put her […]

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Last week, the girls and I made dye from walnuts as Confederate families did for war uniforms. With a hammer, I smashed three dozen shells into small pieces then boiled and steeped them in water for an afternoon. Before we used it as a dye, we strained the mixture and added a little vinegar. I […]

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This is a fun post to title. “Center of her own universe” or “World in her pocket” would be other options. Even quoting the lyrics to Schoolhouse Rock’s Interplanet Janet…she’s a galaxy girl…… This week I made Michaela a skirt. She helped sew a few of the hems, pressing on the pedal. It was fun. […]

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