JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

the bare ground begs fill me rescue brings responsibility dirt poor empty and torn ripped and cut open and ready what will I do with it

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I will miss these mornings cradling you to my chest stroking baby hair while you suck the soft sounds dreams meeting morning grunts and gulps gratitude and greed a baby’s breakfasting the curve of my arm caressing your cheek as I hold you close This morning as if my milk can speak my mind a […]

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we lost the last umbilical cord with the scissors smile both cruel and kind bringing fear and freedom birthday presents for baby but you can’t understand this sudden end to the dependency Aching, shrieking earthquake within me but I could not stop time had come and out you come wearing your mother’s blood with a […]

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open the door but don’t look at the floor: a tangle of laundry spaghetti of memories pants, turtlenecks, a dress embarrassing mess clothes together like old lovers embracing each other I pull them apart getting a start on cleaning the closet but the memories come to mind one by one happy and sad tales stained […]

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Saw this article today Moms: Stop asking for antibiotics , an educational ad campaign to convince parents to not demand drug presciptions for their children’s illnesses, and thought I’d blog a little about it – then saw my friend Enoch’s medmusings regarding this same piece of news. Actually I don’t ask for antibiotics. I was […]

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