JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

He Passes Through My Body wrote Halley Suitt [excerpt]: It was a neat trick. How eight years back, I was the size of a woman wearing a tight tee shirt and equally snug blue jeans on a late fall morning, wore my pelvis just right in those days, still slightly girlish myself and then in […]

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The girls often wake up in the mornings on their own and the digital clock on their dresser helps them to know what time it is. At least it does for Abigail. She reads numbers well enough to know when it says “8”. She’s starting to tell time and can comprehend what a digital clock […]

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Last Wednesday the girls and I went to the library. I had two purposes to accomplish, two items on the “to do” list. One was taking the girls to Library Story Time. As Abigail and Michaela listened to the librarian, I caught up with an acquaintance, another mother, whom I hadn’t seen in months. We […]

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Three year-old Michaela chatting at lunch time: you know daddy when mommy was going to cut my hair I got up on the countertop and I fell into the sink. That’s why my pants are wet….mommy cut my hair Ted: Where? scrutinizing her hairstyle upstairs in the bathroom (laugh) do you know those new books […]

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Enoch’s post last week inspired me, along with Jay McCarthy and someone else I know changing blogrolls and blogging habits, so I decided to take a break this weekend. Not only from blogging but from laundry and cleaning, email and many things. It’s rare that we have a weekend of “nothing” to do (except Valentine’s […]

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