JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

On NPR’s All Things Considered earlier this week I heard a report on childhood obesity caused not by television watching itself, but by the commercials for sugary foods. Children Targeted in Junk-Food Ads : A Kaiser Family Foundation report says media messages promoting high-fat and sugary snacks to children now dominate television advertising, which just […]

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Bainbridge Island, where we live, is historically significant because it was the first place where Japanese-Americans, under Executive Order 9066, were forced to leave for internment camps during World War II. On the front page of today’s Seattle Times, the article WWII internments set Aleuts adrift from their islands discusses the experience of the Aleuts […]

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Previous entries in this blog have documented my addiction to antibiotic prescriptions. How I call the clinic at the first sign of someone’s sniffles. How I pummel our pediatrician, begging and pleading until he starts scribbling secret notes to our pharmacist. I don’t feel life is complete unless I’m dosing out spoonfuls of sticky pink […]

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This afternoon while I was listening to a radio show on KUOW which had invited callers to share their caucus experience, I wondered whether there was a blog equivalent. The closest I can come to finding a site with multiple perspectives on today’s caucus is the Seattle Weblogs page. Also Jeff at Mad Times described […]

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The other day I described how I am trying to teach my children politics and geography during this presidential election year. Yesterday I overheard Abigail, as she was putting socks away in her dresser, say to herself: “Kerry wants to be the President.” And while NPR played in the kitchen, Michaela caught a few words […]

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