JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

A couple days ago, Anita Rowland blogged about listening to Peter Jackson’s commentary on The Two Towers, and how what was uncovered at the site of Sutton Hoo influenced the film’s depiction of Rohan. It was fun to look at the archaeological pictures and finds! We’ve been waiting to buy the DVDs but it sure […]

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Thanks to helpful blog reader Steven Noels of Outer Web Thought Log , full content RSS feed of Seedlings and Sprouts is now available – see the link at the bottom of the sidebar under “LINKS”. I’ve left the previous version that gives only excerpts still available under the title “RSS 1.0 Feed”. Enjoy!

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Little Elisabeth today decided to wash out her own mouth with soap. Come to think of it, the only words she can say are four-letter ones (mama, dada), but I was surprised she decided to take a bite out of the bathroom sink’s soap fish, in a moment when neither mama nor big sisters were […]

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I can’t remember the last time I could breathe clearly. Today’s Day 6 or so of this cold. I’m at the raw-red-nose and two-boxes-of-Kleenex-a-day stage. Ick! I’m even taking OTC medicine – rare for me – and it doesn’t seem to be helping. Now it’s not much, as far as illnesses in general, not much […]

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Hey, just wondering if anyone out there has a good recipe that uses a bag of cranberries? I put one in my shopping cart the other day (absent-mindedly? sucker for a sale?), forgetting that we usually just eat the canned jellied stuff (Ted’s favorite). I don’t think I’ve made cranberry relish from scratch since our […]

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