JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

My children are teaching me about choice. Choice isn’t a concept I grew up having and living. Life to me felt forced. Deprived. Dead-end. I had to do A. I must become B. When I decided not to be C, I precipitated a disaster. But when my 21-month-old toddler wakes up every morning, the first […]

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A friend of mine recommended the homeschooling book Teaching the Trivium by Harvey and Laurie Bluedorn. I think what she appreciated the most was the authors’ emphasis on later learning – an idea that originated with Raymond and Dorothy Moore whom I read last year. The Bluedorns believe in Classical Education based on the Trivium […]

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I like waking up on Wednesday mornings. Tuesday nights we, along with our neighbors, as weekly ritual, scurry in our driveways and position our trash for collection. We carry the blue recycle bins filled with glass, paper and cans to the sidewalk and pull the cans on their wheels from the garage to the curb. […]

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Last Tuesday night, as I gathered the garbage from the upstairs rooms to put into the cans for collection, the girls followed me, watching my work. Abigail and Michaela were surprised when I took the trash from the can on Ted’s side of the bed and exclaimed: “You share the garbage?!” Yes, we share the […]

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This (Wednesday) morning the girls and I shared the beach with a blue heron. We had turned around the corner on the trail and saw the bird wading in the water at low tide, the smooth shape and elongated neck making easy identification. I reached for my camera – and discovered the battery was low, […]

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