JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Here’s a handful of pictures, new ones that I haven’t previously posted, that represent a few pieces of 2003 for our family….

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Today was the first - and last - snow of 2003. It was one-year-old Elisabeth’s first snow. It was the first snow Michaela remembers since she was Elisabeth’s age last time this happened. And this is probably the first snow Abigail will remember well.
Abigail’s first snow happened in San Jose, on a Sunday morning [...]

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in a previous entry yesterday, I mentioned the local high school’s recent acquisition of an electron microscope…
..and yesterday Fred at Fragments from Floyd posted the Beauty of Beer including a pretty picture of George Killian’s Red from
the Molecular Expressions Photo Gallery . Our portfolio of galleries contains thousands of full [...]

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musings from this morning
why am I
acting like a child
rejoicing to see
how you will
wrap us all in white
morning noises
am I hearing things
too tired to tell
need to clear my head
maybe get my ears checked
check my own children
but they are quiet
silent sleepers still
I hear shrieking
pull away the curtains
to see the neighbor kids
California natives
who left L.A. only last summer
sledding [...]

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I was sitting here in the kitchen this morning when I noticed the curtains in the dining room glowing pink. Now these are not white gauzy curtains. We have some of those too. These are upholstery fabric beige and green….so I know that if they are glowing pink, something bright must be in the eastern [...]

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Today, in response to the “mad cow” discovery last week, the U.S. government created new tighter rules , including the banning of sick “downer” cows from slaughter, changing the ways cows are killed, and prohibiting the slaughter of tested animals until results are known.
On the NPR station KUOW in the morning [...]

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In yesterday’s Seattle Times I read two articles on recycling: First Food-waste composting: recycling’s next frontier
Food scraped off your plate at Seattle restaurants next year could go into recycling bins — and later come back to your table, in a roundabout way, in a bottle of wine.
Seattle needs to move to this new frontier to [...]

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What your children can teach you about marketing….
I confess I’m not an expert in marketing or advertising. I did take a course during my studies in Non Profit Management at San Jose State and I found that I liked it. I enjoyed using what I had learned for a little while working at my job [...]

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On CNNmoney this morning M&M’s in black and white
Candy maker plans to eliminate colors temporarily during marketing contest….
NEW YORK (CNNfn) - In a marketing gimmick reminiscent of the gold ticket in “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory,” M&M’s will run a contest in 2004 which will offer six grand prizes and for [...]

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Well, we didn’t get a White Christmas but maybe we’ll have a snowy January 1st…this morning’s paper says: Snow may test our resolve; up to 4 inches expected
Four inches is a mere pittance in most places, but here it will be cause for celebration for plenty of young children making snow balls and snow men…and [...]

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