JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Reading Scoble’s aggregator blog is like being invited to his house for dinner. It’s as if he spent the day driving around picking up the best dishes from all the restaurants he knows, and then he invites you to come over and sample the buffet spread out across an enormous table. Through the wonders of […]

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Shelley Powers also likes pretty dresses and Romance…and she wondered what has happened to those moments of whirling and whispering… Is romance dead? …I’m talking about moonlight and roses, dancing until dawn, looking dreamily into each others eyes. Romance. Capital ‘R’. […] Did we lose Romance when we burned our bras and marched for equal […]

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Tuesday’s Seattle Times described how Once-dying Chinook language finds future in voices of children, including the teaching program Tony Johnson developed. I especially liked this proof that the language education program is working Now the Grand Ronde program is so successful, he said, children here use Chinuk-wawa to keep secrets from adults. “When they don’t […]

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Quotes from today’s Seattle Times… Mourning a slain father At least 500 people packed Marlatt’s Funeral Home in Kent yesterday to remember Nirmal Singh Thind, a 44-year-old motel owner who was shot to death last week after protecting his 10-year-old son from robbers. Mourners filled the chapel and lobby while scores more gathered in the […]

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Dan Gillmor also linked to MetaEfficient, a guide to “the most efficient things in the world” – everything from waterless urinals to heirloom tomatoes to biodegradable dinnerware. Although I’m still recovering from my diaper decision, I’m hoping to take a longer look through here and find some ideas I can implement. Perhaps I’ll start saving […]

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