JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Frosty and icy outside this morning. Crystal balls like ornaments hanging from bare branches. Frozen dots on the plastic newspaper sleeve. A thin layer of ice on the street and sidewalk too. Not enough to make me slip but enough to make me cautious as I jogged. I went around the loop three times this […]

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yesterday I spied these crocus flowers poking up through the snow, and I realized that that is how I feel right now, as if I’ve been through a long winter this past year, and I’m hopeful for the springtime, for the flowers that will bloom soon….

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Yesterday the girls and I spent the morning going through a stack of old magazines. I don’t know why I’ve held onto these for so long. It wasn’t that long ago, I guess, that I had all kinds of ambitious plans for our home and garden, dreams for travels and trips, fantasies about furniture even. […]

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Let me next say that I don’t really believe in resolutions. Either it’s a part of you or it isn’t. Deciding to start something January 1 can sometimes be only a disaster. I don’t think anything special changes inside us with the change of the calendar. (As Bono sings: “nothing changes on New Year’s Day”!) […]

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Here’s a handful of pictures, new ones that I haven’t previously posted, that represent a few pieces of 2003 for our family….

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