JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Today (January 25) is our 14th wedding anniversary. We’ve now been married longer than my parents were. Perhaps it seems strange to mention this as significant, in the second sentence, a sad and somber thought on a day of celebration. But I can’t deny that I entered into marriage with some doubt due to divorce, […]

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Harvard psychologist Steven Pinker listed three links for the video of his MITWorld lecture on Words and Rules: two pages at Harvard and the Luxuriant Flowing Hair Club for Scientists. Had I lingered longer in the lab, perhaps I too could have proposed myself for membership. However, I recently had my hair trimmed so I […]

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Robert Scoble kindly invited us to attend the Naked Conversations Launch Party on January 21. Ted was in San Francisco this week and couldn’t make it. But after a week of parenting by myself, I was grateful for the opportunity to go out alone, pick up a copy of the book, and celebrate with friends. […]

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This week the girls and I did ye old penny-cleaning-with-vinegar experiment. We tried a number of permutations including adding ketchup and/or salt to the solution with water as a control. The picture above is a penny Abigail held halfway in her mix of ketchup, vinegar and salt for ten seconds. Ketchup seemed to help clean […]

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I’m reluctant to admit I’m a fan of figure skating. We’re fans all right, fans as a family. It can’t be denied, only proved by our lifestyle. For example, although we’ve never owned a TV, we borrowed one from my boss in 1992 and 1994 so we could see skating in the Olympics. (now we […]

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