JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

This is an unusual evening. It’s pretty rare for us to be watching TV period. It’s rare for us to spend a night, even a Saturday night, sitting on the office sofa craning our necks at the monitor displaying whatever channel we’re trying to receive. Halley this week blogged Turn Off Your TV. Usually I’d […]

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Trying to hear more snow updates the other morning, I turned on the radio and ended up listening to a Weekday on KUOW (9 am hour) program all about Rats! Hearing about all these rodents in urban areas, climbing up pipes in search of garbage disposal tidbits and other adventures… and after my own experiences […]

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Well, we didn’t get a White Christmas but maybe we’ll have a snowy January 1st…this morning’s paper says: Snow may test our resolve; up to 4 inches expected Four inches is a mere pittance in most places, but here it will be cause for celebration for plenty of young children making snow balls and snow […]

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Chains shall he break for the slave is our brother and in his name all oppression shall cease “O Holy Night” is one of my favorite Christmas carols. I love the rich lyrics, especially the multiple verses. This particular stanza speaks strong to me this year. There’s a lot of talk in the world about […]

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on the BBC late last night was about the discovery of “mad cow” disease in Washington state, the U.S.’s first case… and I’ve got a prime rib in the fridge that I bought yesterday for Christmas dinner! A rare splurge, on sale, and one of the only times this year that I haven’t paid a […]

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