JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Yesterday a friend and I had coffee – well, she had coffee and I had hot chocolate – at a bakery located inside a garden nursery on the island. We sat outside on crimson benches beneath a tree, crow cawing into our conversation. The garden had a couple tulips here, daffodil or two there, with […]

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Where the Suquamish once lived, there are boats in a marina. There’s a swan boat to rent by the hour: painted wooden curves. There are ferry boats run by the government: green and white stripes. There are sailboats and yachts cruising through the harbor on a sunny afternoon. Where the Suquamish once spent summers eating […]

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David Weinberger wrote: Reading to a kid flips reading – our paradigm of what you do when alone – into a social act. And it opens the book up in a new way. But reading into a microphone for public consumption is something else again. It’s like taking the book out for a spin: You’re […]

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This is my favorite bulb of the spring. I like daffodils. I like tulips. I like crocuses. But this one is special to me because it is unique. It is a cultivar of yellow dog-tooth violet that is named “Pagoda”:Erythronium tuolumnense. I heard about it in an Ann Lovejoy book (can’t remember which one) and […]

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Speaking of pop culture heroes… Yule Heibel linked to an article in Saturday’s Toronto Star What a trend we have in Jesus that claims Jesus is hot. Over the past few months, the dreamy-looking and fanatically adored religious icon has crossed over, born again as a full-fledged international pop celebrity. […] In fact, many believe […]

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