JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

in my college’s alumni magazine: From Domestic Goddess by Paige Cokos Rienzo ’97 Being a wife and mother nourished my grandmother. Now those roles are more or less dormant. I see her uncomfortable with the medicines and regimens that have crept in and taken the place of sauce-stirring and baby-calming. What to do when there […]

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I saw this news ‘Sleeping on it’ really can solve problems on New Scientist earlier today and tonight its appearing on BoingBoing and BBC which I’ll quote below: Sleep ‘can increase brain power’ A good night’s sleep helped those struggling to remember Scientists say that they have shown how the brain can crack complex mental […]

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From a Seattle Times article in Saturday’s paper: King’s daughter rouses audience: ‘Will it matter that you lived?’ A Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. event is a means toward inspiration…. The prelude to yesterday’s event was a taped recording of King’s “I Have a Dream” speech. But its coda was the resonant voice of […]

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Catching up on my blog reading tonight, I read A little shakey Either we just had a small earthquake, or they’re making NyQuil a lot stronger than they used to. and remembered immediately how I was sitting at my desk late last night (actually early this morning) when I thought I felt a little earthquake. […]

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…it’s Ernie! One of my friends from high school sent me an email that he’ll be on the NPR show Wait,Wait Don’t Tell Me tomorrow. I haven’t listened to it in a while but I’ll be tuning in to KUOW Saturday at ten to hear what happened. He’s hoping he’ll win (or maybe he already […]

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