JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Elisabeth’s learned how to say “uh-oh”. This can signify anything from a dropped toy teapot, to a book she wants back from the floor to a missing slipper or sock. I remember each of the girls has gone through this uh-oh stage and it’s a lot of fun. It’s good to know that she keeps […]

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From New Scientist Brazil nut harvests heading for crash , I learn a lot about my favorite nut. Brazil nuts are the only internationally traded seed crop collected exclusively from natural forests, and are a popular Christmas snack in the US and Europe. They are often cited as a prime example of a non-timber forest […]

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It’s been a while since I read Nathaniel Hawthorne’s novel, but recently I’ve found myself thinking about The Scarlet Letter . I’ve been feeling such an intense sense of shame, and imagined that I too was wearing a big crimson sign everyone would see. Now I did not commit a crime. I didn’t break any […]

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tire swing spin us around you scream laughing hands holding tight to the chains that bring you joy I try to take a picture to capture with my camera but you two become a blur of red and blue spinning too fast for me to see you are not where I think you are elisabeth […]

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The wonders of dialoguing via weblogging… It’s been fun for me to look at the other postings and comments, that began with Chris Winter’s original one on having babies. If you’re interested, go back to the trunk of the tree, at his blog, and then trace through the various branches. I wrote my reply after […]

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