JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I wasn’t sure I should take the girls to watch the gymnastics competition today. I had begun to doubt what Ted and I were doing, bringing up our daughters with the sports of ice-skating (mostly watching it on TV) and gymnastics (taking kiddie classes on Saturday mornings). Is this what I want to do, encourage […]

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There’s been a bit of talk recently about how big everyone’s blogroll is. Well, mine is sufficiently small (growing more now that I use an aggregator) but here’s a glimpse, a summary of sorts, bits and pieces of what I’ve been reading in weblogs this week… Enoch and Tania celebrated Chinese New Year and had […]

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Last week Lisa Williams discussed what Clive Thompson at Collison Detections posted in My So-Called Blog. I liked what he wrote about writing, in describing the effect the Internet will have on society, as one mass therapy experiment…. The mere process of writing — even if you don’t write about yourself — is inherently exploratory, […]

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was IMing Ted: “there’s a big box here…” Soon as I opened the mailbox and spied the return address scrawled in pen on the cardboard, I knew what this package was. Precious cargo, long awaited. Walking back up the hill to the house I thought about what to do. Bang on his office door? Rush […]

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Yesterday the girls and I – all 3 of the girls, in fact – enjoyed watching the Mars movies at the NASA M2K4 flash site – wow, what pictures! Seeing the planet rotate, spinning around in three dimensions, amazed me. Looking at the craters, the volcano, the cute rovers… Of course, the big news yesterday […]

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