JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Thanks to helpful blog reader Steven Noels of Outer Web Thought Log , full content RSS feed of Seedlings and Sprouts is now available – see the link at the bottom of the sidebar under “LINKS”. I’ve left the previous version that gives only excerpts still available under the title “RSS 1.0 Feed”. Enjoy!

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Little Elisabeth today decided to wash out her own mouth with soap. Come to think of it, the only words she can say are four-letter ones (mama, dada), but I was surprised she decided to take a bite out of the bathroom sink’s soap fish, in a moment when neither mama nor big sisters were […]

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Here’s a joke for a mom: What do a visit to the dentist and a date have in common? Both require a lot of work getting out the door! Now to have a date with my husband, I’m happy to do some work. Being alone with Ted is worth the time and organization it takes. […]

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This weekend, I was feeling all sorts of emotions about a painful situation. Sometimes it’s even hard to untangle the reasons behind the feelings. Maybe, it’s just deep grief. As Lisa Williams writes today in her blog : “So grief seems to light up the same parts of the brain that light up when a […]

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I can’t remember the last time I could breathe clearly. Today’s Day 6 or so of this cold. I’m at the raw-red-nose and two-boxes-of-Kleenex-a-day stage. Ick! I’m even taking OTC medicine – rare for me – and it doesn’t seem to be helping. Now it’s not much, as far as illnesses in general, not much […]

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