JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Our family spent Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon enjoying the Chinese New Year celebrations organized by Bainbridge Island Chinese Connection. Demonstrations of traditional dances (mostly minority cultures) by The Melody Institute and Peking opera singers entertained us on Saturday evening. On Sunday the lion dancers amazed us and we came home carrying the girls’ [...]

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It’s America’s birthday today but I have only become fond of the Fourth in the past five years. As a child, Independence Day meant we might get together for a potluck with friends, someone almost always contributing a patriotic dessert of whip cream, blueberries and strawberries in the shape of the American flag. Maybe we’d [...]

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In April, KiDiMu, the Kids Discovery Museum on Bainbridge Island, opened with a fun Rainforest exhibit. Although we don’t usually purchase memberships, we joined the museum after our first visit. I know we’ll be going there at least once a month and it only takes five visits for our family to justify the cost. I’m [...]

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In the beginning it was Ted and me. Or so I believed. We were the only ones. But I was wrong.
A year ago, I could count the number of island bloggers I knew on one hand. Now, thanks in part to the Technorati feed Mike Houser created, I have a list of two [...]

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One morning last week we took a break from our books and walked outside. In a patch of woods, we sampled salmon berries the color of sunrise and listened to the tree frogs sing.

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Courageous citizen journalist Cathy Nickum was the winner of Tuesday’s technology levy, in my mind. No she wasn’t on the ballot. It was a simple yes or no and the school district’s tech levy lost, defeated by 57% of voters. But I learned where I want to go for information. Cathy’s site Bainbridge Buzz [...]

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While it’s not the best picture of Bainbridge Island, I thought the sunny day was a good opportunity to test the landscape mode on the camera and get a shot of the Olympic Mountains over Eagle Harbor as the ferry pulled toward Seattle.
I Love Bainbridge Island has been posting some beautiful pictures of this [...]

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In a post on Bainbridge Buzz titled Thoughts on Prom Night, island counselor Michael Dorsey listed facts and statistics, legal and biological, concerning drugs, alcohol and sex. Continuing the conversation in the comments section, he suggested that perhaps we as parents encourage quick fixes to problems: our attitudes and practices with legal substances may [...]

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I read Electrolicious, Ariel Meadow Stallings’ blog, for a number of reasons. She’s an excellent writer, funny, creative and fresh. She’s a Seattle blogger. She’s also a friend of my brother. And, I confess, I read Ariel’s blog because she occasionally shares what it was like to grow up on Bainbridge Island and how [...]

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