JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

It’s been hot here, but the heat isn’t the reason why Abigail has a fever. The poor girl was complaining of a headache yesterday while we were driving to Tacoma; I finally checked her temperature last night after we got home. I think I’ll be spending the day taking her to the doctor. We’ve had [...]

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Lisa Williams this week wrote an elegant defense and description of her home state and also asked the question where would you live if you could live anywhere?
I’m not about to attempt an essay as eloquent and passionate as hers. But after Reading Seattle and living here now four years as an adult, I’ve [...]

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It’s one of those nights. I’m feeling restless. It’s the gotta-get-through-this-week itch. What’ll it take? A batch of cookies? That’s the easy but bad habit that needs to break. Maybe simply scrubbing the house will ease my mind, the physical work moving the mental energy. Or perhaps I should take a bath and paint my [...]

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That’s where I’ll be at times this week…I hope it’s as fun as the first one…

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In May I put Reading Seattle: The City in Prose on my reading list and my blog. Through the library, the book came to my home recently and I had some time to skim and enjoy it. I can’t say I read every piece in this anthology. The book is a smorgasboard, with thin [...]

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Recently I’ve seen a couple other posts about free books…or rather books that aren’t allowed to be free.
The free books that have excited me came from our local library. We picked up some free books at a sale earlier this month: I think they’ll make great road-trip amusement material.
The library system in our [...]

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Note: the content of this blog post is not intended as an endorsement of anything or anyone except silliness
The other day the girls were cheering at the dinner table “Bush! Kerry!” and then they added “Dean!” Even Elisabeth got into the act. She can’t say many words but somehow she could try to say [...]

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As if the news last week (via MetaFilter) of Krispy Kreme’s new drinkable version of the company’s signature doughnut wasn’t enough incentive, today’s Democratic National Convention report from Dave Winer guarantees that donut stocks should be on the BUY list…

Well, the convention has started. It’s boring beyond belief. It can only get better. [...]

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Saturday night I listened to Dave Winer’s CoffeeNotes audio post. While the MP3 played, I made pairs of earrings from abalone and flower beads. I thought it was fun that Dave has talked about showing beauty on blogs (as I have elaborated) and I was listening to his blog and making something beautiful. I felt [...]

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Through Doc Searls’ post Survival of the Funnest I enjoyed an essay by Bernie DeKoven. I love his Funlog description

This funlog, on the other hand, is Bernie DeKoven’s weblog, about Bernie’s search for signs of fun on the Internet.

In his piece titled e-playing and e-learning: integral fun and meaningful failure Bernie [...]

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