JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

If I say the word “dumplings”, I’m referring to the food, Chinese style wrappers filled with meat, or I’m using it as an affectionate term for one of my daughters. But recently the word “dumpling” has a new association in my mind… When ABC televised the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships, they included a profile […]

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Ah, the ads are out and all over the place, urging purchases for next Sunday’s celebration. I’ve seen everything from vacuum cleaners to lingerie advertised as an appropriate gift for Mom. But what does it say to give a mother a vacuum cleaner? And what does it say to give her lingerie? I laughed while […]

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My local friend Jenny has started a blog: Jenny On the Spot. She’s a mom to 1-year-old Olivia (who’s a little older than my Elisabeth) and a 4-year-old boy Joel. (Her blog has a great picture of the two but I confess some curiousity about the tulips – are the kids that small or the […]

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Procedure: Incubate children with chocolate ice cream treats on the porch for fifteen minutes at 80 degrees Fahrenheit. Need I write more?

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Yesterday I printed and read the paper Performance in Competitive Environments: Gender Differences, published in the August 2003 MIT Quarterly Journal of Economics referenced in Women less competitive? at misbehaving.net. In the study, male and female students at an engineering institution in Israel were asked to compete against each other by solving mazes and found […]

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