JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

From amba’s post listing goodies she discovered on a logophile’s paradise the Phrontistery , I learned ombrophilous, defined as tolerant of large amounts of rainfall. While amba says this word describes those of us who live in Seattle, I beg to disagree. Maybe it was the move to California that spoiled me. [...]

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My college magazine intrigued me with an article by David L. Marcus titled Close to Home in which he details his experience writing a book about therapeutic schools—last-chance places for teenagers struggling with alcohol, drugs, and impulsiveness.
I couldn’t help think about my own community as I read these paragraphs containing what the kids [...]

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From Jerry Large’s March 31 column in the Seattle Times.

The Mavin Foundation in Seattle has picked five 20-somethings to travel around the country stirring up conversations about mixed-race people, raising awareness of a mixed-race baby boom and connecting people with resources relevant to mixed-race people and anyone who has contact with them.
Of course, it isn’t [...]

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From KOMO’s news feed comes this Anderson Island story Knock, Knock. Who’s There? The Flower Fairy:

Someone has delivered dozens of bouquets or potted plants over the past several weeks to residents of the island near Tacoma.
They hear a late-night knock and answer the door to find a floral gift and a cheery handwritten note [...]

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Brett at DadTalk linked to a New York Times story Vibrant Cities Find One Thing Missing: Children. An accompanying graphic reveals Seattle’s position as second to San Francisco in the lowest percentage of children under the age of 18: 15.6%

The problem is not just that American women are having fewer children, reflected in the [...]

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From an article in today’s Seattle Times American families’ plight: Lives structured to a fault

Scientists at UCLA have spent the past four years observing 32 Los Angeles families in a study of how working America somehow gets it done. Day after day.
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In 1,600 hours of digital video, scientists captured moments of unfiltered joy — but [...]

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After reading a number of Robert Scoble’s links to the Blog of Death, I decided to subscribe to it myself. Perhaps this may be an example of how to convince others to read a certain blog: link often to it, and ensure that the blog has unique and valuable content. Death may be a morbid [...]

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From an article in Thursday’s Seattle Times: Group prepares for an African homecoming in Kenya:

It was on the group’s first visit, in 2000, that a Kenyan woman put a question to Arunga and her companions.
“She said, ‘You call yourselves African Americans. Where in Africa do you come from?’ ” recalls Arunga, 46. “Because she [...]

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It can be dangerous not to know hamster anatomy.
Katy Lee and their family now have eight more hamsters than they did earlier this month. The babies sound cute and the parents prolific. The Lees have had a few birth dates in their household this month, including Elliot’s (another blogger) and Katy’s herself, on [...]

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Yesterday I called the Washington state legislative hotline - 1-800-562-6000 - to express my opposition to a potential bill that would affect homeschooling options. I confess that this is the first time I’ve phoned the hotline but it won’t be my last. It was easy to do: with a few moments spent standing in my [...]

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