JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

My first year of college I got a job answering phones and doing data entry. This particular professor wanted to create a database of scientists from association information. Perhaps I should have thought more about taking the job. I was only too eager to leave my first campus employer, Food Services. I had gotten tired […]

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The other day, on NPR, I heard a report about the relationship between Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun and Chief Justice Warren Burger who had grown up together in Minnesota. Blackmun Archives: Prickly Friendship on Court : NPR’s Nina Totenberg finishes her series of reports based on the newly released records of Supreme Court Justice […]

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The cover story of this month’s edition of my college alumni magazine, features one of my classmates, Jesslyn Radack in The Woman Who Knew Too Much by Emily Gold Boutilier. I never met her but heard of her. She became a campus activist during her sophomore year, after, she says, three drunken male students had […]

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And no grammar either… Tonight while cooking dinner I caught the end of NPR’s All Things Considered program. On Sunday nights New York Times ethicist Randy Cohen shows up to answer a listener’s ethical dilemma. One night I heard a woman ask whether she could take home apples that had fallen and gotten bruised for […]

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On Wednesday while walking into Safeway and grabbing a cart, I saw a woman at the check-out buying her groceries. There was something on her forehead that seemed unusual, and it took me a moment to realize what it was. I didn’t grow up going to church on Ash Wednesday and I think perhaps this […]

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