JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I don’t listen to radio that often, but this afternoon while cleaning the house, I caught a commercial by a bank advertising home-equity loans for weddings. It featured one particularly eager mother-of-the-bride, only too happy to borrow against her home so her daughter could have flowers and a dress. Count ’em – we’ve got one, […]

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Susan Mernit has made some new rules for herself – and I might borrow hers! I was thinking this morning that I need new discipline – then I saw her post. It’s all too easy for me to write and read until late, and then it takes a while still for me to settle into […]

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Someone told me that there are problems with posting comments to this blog. Is anyone else having problems? If so, please email me: harrowme AT yahoo.com I’m sorry and I will try to see what I can do, if I can figure out what is wrong. The comments on this blog have been fun, especially […]

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The first harvest has come. Crisp and fresh. Baby lettuce. You don’t need dressing. You don’t need a bowl with tongs to toss it. You can’t wait anyway. You pick a piece in your hand, soft and green. You stand in the sunshine, feet in the dirt, and taste the spring.

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I spent Sunday morning “working on the streets” as a neighbor described it, pushing a broom against stubborn wedges of curbside mud, sweeping our neighborhood for part of our annual spring cleaning. Each year we sign up for shifts for a day – voluntarily- and take our turns weeding, mulching and tidying this community that […]

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