JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Dean’s coming to town today. We already had other plans but I wish I could take the girls and go.
Not that three little kids could probably sit quietly during the Town Hall meeting without wiggling or screaming (ha!).
What I want to do though is to educate them about the political process. The younger two probably [...]

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Well if you’re stuck in the Seattle area without a ticket to Oslo but with a lust for lutefisk, the easiest thing to do might be a trip to Poulsbo, a Scandinavian-themed town across the bridge from Bainbridge Island. Having never been to Norway, I don’t have any idea how much it resembles this [...]

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It was a wet day. The kind of day that gives Seattle its reputation. Water everywhere. The kind of day best enjoyed by staying in bed rather than vernturing outside. I’ve got webbed feet but not flippers.
Speaking of feet, I let Abigail go to dance class while wearing only Mary Janes and no socks - [...]

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finding a Cheerio on the floor
smashed under foot

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I was jogging around the block one morning when I heard loud music coming from one of the houses under construction. The radio was blaring “Sweet Home Alabama” and someone was singing along, in a nice shower voice, echoing through the whole plywood frame of a home. I could have given a complaint - hey [...]

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Here’s a few updates on some posts I’ve previously written:
The FAO Schwarz bear arrived on Bainbridge Sunday, after a much-publicized ferry ride. Bainbridge Review has a picture and the text now on-line of what I typed.
Bobby Jindal, who ran for governor of Louisiana this fall, announced yesterday that he will [...]

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I appreciated Fred’s post yesterday What’s so Funny, describing what he liked about M.A.S.H., Hawkeye in particular, and the power of laughter. Fred has a grandaughter the same age as my daughter, so it means something to me to hear him say:

If I had life to do over again, there would be more music [...]

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Wink has been writing a series of posts describing how he and his wife, Tree, discovered their infertility. From post #2 in the series:

I balked. No. I hadn’t even accepted that the test results weren’t just a big typo. I certainly wasn’t going to start making plans yet. But Tree had already thought all [...]

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Again from my college magazine…a curiousity and a good segue from the post I just wrote and into my next piece….
Medical Modesty by Charlotte Bruce Harvey ’78

In seventeenth-century China, no lady would have endured the indignity of a hospital johnny. It was improper for a physician to see her body, much less conduct a physical [...]

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Enoch’s post giving a damn about the patient, not the numbers linking to Victor Van Hee’s A Great Case reminded me of an experience I had had in a hospital years ago - and how it was one of the reasons why I changed my mind and chose to leave the medical program I [...]

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