JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

In his post titled “Women and Leadership”, Michael Williams linked to Eve Tushnet : WOMEN AND LEADERSHIP: Clio writes: You suggest that women have a difficult time with leadership because they are too focussed on “relationships” to keep track of institutional goals, and cannot accept the idea of the “mask of command”. I suspect that […]

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The other day three-year-old Michaela was learning how to ride her bike up our steep driveway. She was wearing one of her favorite outfits these days: fuschia T-shirt and pants equally dark pink. It was a hot day, a sunny spring morning, and the color of her clothes reminded me of raspberry sherbet. As I […]

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Via Home With Penelope (Owl Mother’s Journal) I read A Good Enough Birth; A Good Enough Parent by Rebecca Steinitz at Literary Mama: While I concede that our medicalized birthing practices have their shortcomings,the pressure for natural childbirth has its own problems, not the least of which is that it fosters the idea that birth […]

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Today I had to take Home Comforts back to the library so last night I was up a bit late skimming through chapters and typing out some thoughts into a post. Since I wrote last night, I’ve been thinking more about the book. While the detailed information can be overwhelming, I also thought it was […]

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I avoided a double stroller as long as I could. When my second child arrived, I used my backpack with the single stroller. It worked for a while. Until I got pregnant with Elisabeth. But by then even Michaela was a good walker. I knew though that it would be difficult to keep track of […]

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