JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Earlier this year I blogged about our friend Erika who participated in a study and learned that her breast milk contained flame retardants . What surprised me especially was that we know how healthy a lifestyle she keeps, and yet she still has toxic chemicals in her body. Today’s Seattle Times contained two more articles […]

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Now I’m a native, born and raised in the Seattle area, and I’ve heard these type of stories before, read ’em in the paper, but it still surprises me to read what people will do for a geoduck… Excerpts below from the article in yesterdays’ Seattle Times Geoduck smuggler gets 14-year term The king of […]

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I enjoyed this StoryCorp piece on NPR Tuesday morning. Excerpts were played from this self-serve recording booth at NYC’s Grand Central Terminal. A daughter asks her mother “how do you want to be remembered?” An immigrant tells about his first day in America, searching a restaurant menu, “hot dogs” and “hamburgers” a mystery. StoryCorp sounds […]

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Another health article in today’s Seattle Times, this one on the correlation between chopstick use and osteoarthritis Chinese diners stick to their chops, arthritis link aside I had heard about this study earlier this year, on the radio and on CNN.com, but this article explores a little more about the culture and history of chopsticks, […]

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In today’s Seattle Times, a study done of 407 children at a dozen researchers in the Northwest concluded: Echinacea called ineffective remedy for kids’ colds Children who took echinacea didn’t have colds for any shorter time, and their symptoms were just as bad as those who didn’t receive the herb, a new study found. “For […]

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