JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

We had planned to leave early this morning to drive to California. As a family we’d gathered together toys, books, tapes and snacks, even a first aid kit and flashlights for the journey, and we’d spread a map across the living room carpet, tracing the freeways with our fingers, showing the girls where we would […]

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Speaking of Star Wars (since I mentioned Darth Siddius in a recent post)….while we were staying with our friends in Port Angeles, we listened to Wagner’s Ride of the Valkyries on the stereo. I told Ted I thought it was in the Star Wars soundtrack. He disagreed. We made a blog bet: whoever lost would […]

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The other evening, after Ted left to go to a meeting, I took the girls on a walk in the Grand Forest. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while, as it is #7 in Tracking the Otter, a series at the local library exploring the island and its history. For weeks the book […]

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Monday set a record for the amount of rain – 5.02 inches in Seattle! Record Rain Hits Rainy City The previous record was 3.41 inches set in 1959. It was a hard day for our family. The girls were tired after staying up late Sunday night. So they were cranky. I was tired too. And […]

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From the state of WA, as Elisabeth’s mother, I received in the mail the brochure “Fish Facts for Good Health” and a link to a website too. There is a chart of how much canned tuna a person should eat, based on body weight, and lists of “what is the right kind of fish?” with […]

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