JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Wednesday we visited the Tropical Butterfly House at the Pacific Science Center. I’d wandered through a butterfly display at a zoo a couple years ago and left it unimpressed. This one was different. Maybe it was me. Who can say. But I know that I could have stayed there for hours, surrounded by tropical flowers […]

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Wednesday the girls saw their first dinosaurs when we visited the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. In order to get to other exhibits, we had to walk through this one first. As soon as we turned the corner into the dinosaur room, the girls cried and clinged to me. Giant robotic lizards were devouring each […]

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While I was thinking about Robert Scoble’s post and book review titled Did China beat Christopher Columbus by decades? I read Dare Obasanjo’s response. I often think to myself that there is a lot of background racism in the United States. By background racism, I mean racism that is so steeped into the culture that […]

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That’s how Eric Mack described attending a home education conference. I can’t agree or disagree with him, since I haven’t been to either Comdex or a homeschooling conference. (Actually, for me, many things might qualify as better than Comdex – unless I got to go to Las Vegas alone with my husband!) But I liked […]

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One Friday afternoon in June, I was washing my van in my driveway when a neighbor asked me to take pictures of her and her friends. I dried my hands and ran over to her porch to find four high school seniors wearing their decorated caps, Bainbridge blue with custom sequins. They wrapped arms around […]

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