JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Bainbridge Island Schools have a reputation: some of the highest test scores in the state, but also some of the highest drug use statistics as well. The schools are described by some as one “big drug candy store”, where kids can get anything they want. The island’s problem was profiled in the Wall Street Journal […]

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A quick note here, while I’m thinking about sneezing…ha! ah – choo ….I smiled to see this “Confessions of a Photic Sneezer” on Fragments from Floyd as I was reading late tonight – another ACHOO sufferer: someone who has “Autosomal Dominant Compelling Helioopthalmic Outburst Syndrome”. For all my life I’ve “sneezed in the sun” – […]

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..was a bag. But I was happy to get a bag. I’ve been telling Ted that I’m trying to collect a bunch of canvas or cloth bags to employ as reusable grocery sacks. So I got his OSCON bag and now the latest version of the Apache bag, still black with white and a feather […]

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Here’s a photo I took the other day – on a much sunnier day! – of one of my favorite places in our neighborhood….

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My girls, Abigail, especially, get attached to things. A stuffed hippopotamus. A pink fuzzy lamb. A yellow toy car. Sometimes it’s a playing card or a scrap of paper. Right now Abigail’s favorite thing is a star, flat, made of pale-green plastic. The kind of star that glows in the dark. Abigail likes to take […]

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