JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

from yesterday Driving today out to the coast, I see the road before me, black, yellow and white. Straight ahead of me are hills, fading with distance and depth, looking like layers of tissue paper or ridges of watercolor flowing into each other. The green-blue hues, the thick of the forest, the bright of mountain […]

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Irritating day yesterday. I got up feeling like I wanted to stay in bed. Already exhausted. There are days like that though. The power went out twice. That was annoying. I have said that housework doesn’t take a lot of time and energy: that statement was made with the assumption of a constant electrical supply. […]

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As a mother, I’m conscious of our daughters’ physical development. Concerned would be an appropriate word. I observe them during their gymastics classes, compare them to the other children, and take notes of their weaknesses. I remember the exercises so we can practice them at home. On our living room carpet we do straddle jumps […]

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In English class during my junior year of high school, my teacher wanted us to learn the word “epiphany”. It was a vocabulary word but also fit with the novel we were reading, Free Fall , in which the main character searches his life for that revelatory moment. So the teacher assigned each student the […]

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Sunday morning we went to visit friends who live in a rural area. On the drive south, we saw the Olympic range over Liberty Bay. That was a scene itself: only the top of the peaks were visible, the rest of the mountains covered in fog. It seemed sacred. Mysterious. Spiritual. From our friends’ living […]

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