JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

My second thought about Ronald Reagan’s death was for Nancy. Caretakers take it hard. I can only imagine how difficult it must have been for the Reagan family to watch him suffer from Alzheimer’s for years. My mom took care of my retarded brother for his entire life: he always needed help with something. When […]

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My strongest memory of Ronald Reagan, the one that came most immediate to mind when I heard about his death, happened in elementary school. That year our assignment was to write a page in our journal each morning. I remember writing about the assassination attempt on Reagan. It was a strange year. John Lennon had […]

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Through Janece at Workings of the Mind, I read Bono’s Commencement Address to U Penn. My favorite passage is this one. There’s a truly great Irish poet his name is Brendan Kennelly, and he has this epic poem called the Book of Judas, and there’s a line in that poem that never leaves my mind, […]

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Yan at Glutter has been writing about democracy in Hong Kong and the 15th anniversary of the Tianamen Square demonstrations: Maybe that’s what it means to live under a totalitarian regime. You feel DEFLATED. It’s so bothersome that those thought are better not to be had. To ignore things that doesn’t concern you directly in […]

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I felt guilty last night for my lack of discipline. I went to bed late, later than my limits allow. But if I had stayed up another hour, I might have justified my indulgence by the experience I missed: it’s not every day we get to see a meteor: A meteor about the size of […]

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