JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Elisabeth’s at the stage where she thinks it’s cute and funny to run away from me. She discovering her freedom, seeing how fast she can move her little legs. Today she toddled away from me down the ferry aisle, still wearing her plastic orange bib. I get a bit frustrated: I do want her to […]

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Via Scripting News I read the Telegraph’s report Virgin celebrates first mid-air birth Abimbola Eduwa, 28, was flying with her 19-month-old son Ogbenetega from Lagos to London to visit relatives. She had been assured by doctors that the birth of her second child was at least a month away. But just one hour into the […]

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This week it’s been fun to have a little lively discussion on the topic of the division of labor and family life on this blog. Thanks to everyone who commented. I’ve re-examined and evaluated what I thought and wrote. One sentence I wrote seemed to get me in some trouble. Or at least create some […]

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This week I’ve been doing some painful reading. I’ve been recognizing myself in what I’ve read: Hey, I’ve thought that! I’ve said that. I’ve done that. Oh. Oops. One place where I’ve received some correction has been dooce’s My Unsolicited Advice: Throughout the nine months of my pregnancy Jon and I were warned constantly by […]

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I’m kneeling on the multicolored carpet, cleaning Gatorade off of the pediatric clinic’s waiting room floor, mopping up the mess with handfuls of soggy Kleenex. And I find myself thinking about my mother thirty years ago. Urine is what I want. All that’s on my mind. How to make my daughter give the doctor a […]

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