JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

We’ve been reading a few Amelia Bedelia books around here and last night while I was being creative with some leftovers and phyllo dough I wondered how she would make Shepherds Pie….. Here’s some speculation of the history of such dish that might fit with Amelia’s assumptions. I don’t know if it’s my family’s heritage […]

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Forget fame and fortune…you can live life just fine without those…all I’m hoping to have here is FUN! 🙂 Okay, well, of course, yeah, I’d like to help change the world a little somehow too…but wouldn’t that mostly be fun?!

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Now it’s my turn to do a birding post! This morning after I came back from my jog, I saw The Pheasant in the grassy area behind our home. I’m not sure how many of these birds are on the island. I have seen this one wander around the neighborhood from time to time but […]

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In the past year, through my small homeschooling group, I’ve made a couple good friends. One is an energetic mom of two who is the “life of the party” and creative catalyst for our group. Bernadette amazes me. She is also the president of the Washington State Chapter of the Tourette Syndrome Association and is […]

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In addition to writing about subjective time, at Marginal Revolution this week, Tyler Cowen has also described controlling pain through biofeedback while Alex Tabarrok mentioned fighting fatigue by changing mental and emotional expectations (“central governor” theory). I wonder how these theories would apply in particular to the pain of childbirth and what neural processes are […]

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