JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

If I say the word “dumplings”, I’m referring to the food, Chinese style wrappers filled with meat, or I’m using it as an affectionate term for one of my daughters. But recently the word “dumpling” has a new association in my mind… When ABC televised the 2004 World Figure Skating Championships, they included a profile […]

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My children call him A-yeh. He stands in our kitchen, wrapper in one hand, knife in the other. With rhythm he measures from the bowl a precise amount of meat, a pink mixture of pork and shrimp he carefully prepared with the cleaver, and then he works the thin skin around it, folding won-ton. Again […]

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Last Monday, two days before Mom and Dad came, I went shopping at Poulsbo’s Central Market, hoping to find fresh fish to serve to my family. Ted’s parents haven’t visted us for almost two years. I wanted to cook something special for them, as a treat for us all, and as a way to celebrate […]

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Ted’s technical papers and printouts turned into girls’ origami…

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It’s fun to read the same observations made by people living thousands of miles apart, and I smiled to find two writers in opposite parts of the country each describing a woodpecker. Lisa Williams saw a downy woodpecker while Chip Gibbons thought he saw a pileated one (I liked his “punk rocker” description). Out of […]

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