JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Jorrit Wiersma describes how his daughter loves horses. One thing about Silke that has me baffled is horses. Saskia and I sort of planned not to raise Silke as a girly girl (and how can you in these modern times?), and although she has dolls, and she wears dresses and stuff like that, at least […]

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Michael Hanscom wrote a detailed summary of The Pig War of San Juan Island or how the border for the United States was drawn, with a runaway pig sparking tensions between American and British settlers. The military situation and negotiation that ensued involved Robert of Robert’s Rules of Order and the Kaiser of Germany. There’s […]

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Halley Suitt thinks that posts should be short and sweet: the best blog is a fresh blog full of lots of little posts. I think that what I believe about this should be clear.

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Yesterday we had an incident in our neighborhood involving a suspicious-looking vehicle so we called the police. When the cop car arrived, stopping in front of our house, I asked the officer, “Do you know the license plate?” He took his left hand off the wheel. It was a big hand, dark and hairy. On […]

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The other night I had stayed up too late. It was past midnight. A couple hours past midnight. How had it happened? In my sleepiness I scribbled a note to the milk man, instructions for tomorrow’s delivery. On my way to bed, I went to put the note out on the porch. Opening the front […]

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