JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Distressing news in the past couple weeks, how children ( “American children even less active than thought” ) - and adults ( “Report finds suburban sprawl mirrored in residents’ waistlines” ) are becoming out of shape and overweight.
What bothered me the most in the article about children was: “Parents said the [...]

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Yes, the doctor is out. Out of the country, that is. Our pediatrician (”Dr. O.”) is on sabbatical, gone with her family to Europe where her husband is working for a while.
So at our appointment today we met our new pediatrician (”Dr. N.”), who is substituting for our doctor until her return sometime around [...]

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Not sure what it is with me this summer, but I am having a hard time making things from mixes. Must be me.
For example, I like to make bao Chinese steamed buns to take with us to the Wednesday night picnics. I used to make bao from scratch, using flour, [...]

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Today’s Seattle Times has an article describing the ten cent per cup espresso tax , that will be on the September 16 primary ballot in Seattle. The money raised - millions of dollars, the article claims - would go to subsidize city preschool and child care programs.
While we are not coffee drinkers as [...]

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Grandma, the girls and I went to the Kitsap County Fair on Thursday.
Here are 13 things I learned…..
1. Abigail likes horses.
I think I already knew this one, but it was like watching her fall in love.
First, she and her sister took their first pony ride, holding onto the saddle horn, pony trotting around in a [...]

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Kudos to Classical KING FM for their children’s programming on Saturday mornings! While Ted and Michaela go to gymnastics, the other two girls and I stay home and listen to the KING FM Saturday morning show, a.k.a. Classic KID FM music for kids.
One morning, a couple weeks ago, the theme [...]

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Shaun Groves , “pop” recording artist, gave an interview where he said “there is no art in pop music…(quote continued below)
…What I strive to do, is create enough art, that it doesn’t get in the way of communication. You can have so much art that no one really listens to it. I had a [...]

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I returned Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat back to the library after watching only thirty minutes of it. Yeah, it seems after twenty-five years, I’ve finally lost my crush on Donny Osmond. …won’t my husband be happy:)
No, I stopped the DVD and didn’t want to watch any more. Reviewers at Amazon.com mentioned [...]

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Spring 2002 - perhaps it was my maternal instinct, my pregnancy cravings for order (rather than pickles and ice cream) - I chopped away at the weeds in the strip of woods that border our yard. This involved pulling out lots of blackberry vines which grow thick and wild here. Between how I hacked the [...]

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This morning I heard on the radio, in an ad for The Bon Macy’s :
Looking good makes going back to school a whole lot easier.
So let me explicitly state the cultural attitudes this commercial is communicating:
School is a place I go.
School is a difficult place to go.
School is a place I don’t want [...]

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