JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Compound W that is! Halloween seems to be as good a night as any to finish my wart chronicles …
…and to share with you our good news that for the first time in a year our family is free of plantar warts! Hooray! I got the first one, or at least noticed it, at [...]

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We happened to have both raspberries and chocolate sitting around the kitchen and the taste of the two together brought back a favorite memory….
…When we were first married we would get together with two other couples for some fun adventures. One time, for Valentines Day, the men cooked a meal while we women went out [...]

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I liked this poem, printed in today’s Seattle Times, and the article that accompanied it, describing the author, Peter Periera, local physician and poet.
Take Care
Take care, we say to one another,
on parting, as if the cargo
we carried were fragile
or dangerous - chipped
bottle of nitro, crystal
blue robin’s egg, last ampule
of the healing serum.

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Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber Present is the book I spied in the bookstore window those many months ago, the book that began my Matrix reading kick at the library. This is the third one I have read/skimmed and definitely the most FUN! The other two I’ve reviewed [...]

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The other day while slicing tomatoes too speedily, I cut my finger with the knife. It was just a little cut: tip of the knife and tip of my finger. But it reminded me of a bigger accident I had had once while slicing bagels.
Years ago, back before we had children, we were entertaining [...]

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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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What a day, yesterday….I had to take the van to the dealership in Seattle for its first - and complimentary - oil change. That involved packing the double stroller as well as lots of snacks, books to read, diapers and coats. We got in line for the ferry 45 minutes early, just to be sure, [...]

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On the advice of a friend, I read The Hurried Child by David Elkind, a professor at Tufts. This is the third edition, 2001, of a book originally published 20 years earlier: very updated with discussions on topics such as the Internet, “Lapware”, and Britney Spears’ appeal. It’s a book filled with many [...]

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The same friend who recommended The Hurried Child , also wrote that I should read Raymond and Dorothy Moore’s Home Grown Kids , subtitled A Practical Handbook for Teaching Your Children at Home (looks like its now out of print). I confess I had a hard time getting through the first few chapters and [...]

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Earlier this week Michaela bounced around the house proclaiming “Joy to the body!” We had been reading some proverbs, and I don’t know if she had gotten a bit confused about a verse that read “joy to the bones” but it was quite a perfect illustration to see her vibrantly jumping with joy. Michaela loves [...]

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