JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I enjoyed reading Community Builder a feature in Sunday’s Seattle Times describing developer Ron Sher and how he transformed Bellevue’s Crossroads Mall into a “third place”, a center of community activity, not just a place to shop but a place to share with neighbors. I grew up in a neighborhood within walking distance of the […]

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Looking for the lunar eclipse… but all I saw was this sunset…… I liked the pink snaking through the sky, but I couldn’t believe the clouds had come. We had enjoyed clear blue skies all day until the late afternoon. Here I tried to capture a tiny piece of them with the camera: The other […]

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Abigail was reading Frog and Toad Are Friends by Arnold Lobel today. In one story, “The Letter”, Toad tells Frog: “I never get any mail.” So Frog sets out to fix the situation. He writes a letter to Toad. Then… Frog ran out of his house. He saw a snail that he knew. “Snail,” said […]

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I liked this poem, printed in today’s Seattle Times, and the article that accompanied it, describing the author, Peter Periera, local physician and poet. Take Care Take care, we say to one another, on parting, as if the cargo we carried were fragile or dangerous – chipped bottle of nitro, crystal blue robin’s egg, last […]

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The other day while slicing tomatoes too speedily, I cut my finger with the knife. It was just a little cut: tip of the knife and tip of my finger. But it reminded me of a bigger accident I had had once while slicing bagels. Years ago, back before we had children, we were entertaining […]

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