JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Browsing through John Porcaro’s blog recently, this quote caught my eye and inspired me: Controlling something with lots of variables, details, and horizons requires a matching number of parts and processes to control the whole. If you try to manage something complex with too simple a system, you will do nothing but add to the […]

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Abigail wants to brush her teeth by herself. Again this morning she asked if she could do it alone. Watching her, I’m not sure she’s ready. So I today tried to explain to her more about why she needs to do such a thorough job. I told her how bacteria overnight “have a party”in her […]

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The temperature here in the Puget Sound region this week is around 20 degrees or so below average for this time of year. As I type it is 25 degrees outside, according to the thermometer on our back door. I know that’s not that cold in other parts of the country – would be regular […]

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‘Cause the latest Seattle Symphony catalog arrived in the mail, and there are quite a few tempting concerts to see this season. The one below sounds like a lot of fun: The Lord of the Rings Trilogy: A Symphony in Six Movements Howard Shore, composer and conductor Members of the Seattle Symphony Chorale Seattle Symphony […]

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Last night I burned dinner. Actually I burned dinner a few nights ago. I decided to try to make curry a couple days early and let the spicy flavors develop longer – curry’s supposed to taste better the second day. But instead, somehow I burned what I made. And the only flavor that developed was […]

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