JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I’ve mentioned a bit about Abigail and Elisabeth… here’s a post about Michaela. For her birthday she got another hippopotamus toy, a smaller green and pink one. She named it Hippopotamus – or sometimes she says Hippomopotamus – and it became the baby of Hippo, the big beige one she got last year (thanks to […]

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The other day we were at a friend’s home. My friend has an old toy phone, from her own childhood, plastic with big blue eyes, rotary dial and long string cord to an orange receiver. It might have wheels on it too. Elisabeth wasn’t sure what to do with it, looked at it strangely. But […]

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I’m not sure how it started. I think I was trying to help Abigail understand how some of the rest of the world lives. Maybe I mentioned that not everyone has beds like we do. And she started asking questions. She wanted to know specifics. So I told her that there were children who didn’t […]

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Here’s the top ten things I look for in a grocery store…. 1. A parking lot with spaces that are easy and accessible. One store on the island has a parking lot that is a nightmare to negotiate. It’s such a small space, the lots packed tight, and it was probably planned back in the […]

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Abigail: What color is heaven? Michaela: Why did Jesus make us with tongues?

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