JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I had to laugh today while reading Fred’s description of the song and dance he does when asked for his last name. I laughed the laugh of those who feel a sudden companionship in their sufferings, those who finally know that they are not alone, that another traveler has shared the same road. In my […]

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Michael Hanscom reviewed the film De-Lovely: One question, though: fashions have been reaching into the past for “retro” looks for the past couple decades, with a lot of emphasis on the 70’s and 80’s. Could we please cast a little further back so that the fashions of the 30’s and 40’s would come back into […]

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I want to draw like Henri Matisse said Abigail this afternoon while taking out her paper and pens. The other day we read a library book A Bird or Two A Story About Henri Matisse by Bijon Le Tord. I don’t know much about Matisse myself, and this book is an introduction to his style […]

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I feel a bit sad whenever I see yet another blogger turn off comments. Perhaps I feel a particular wistfulness for Betsy’s decision because I met her through comments on her blog and mine. For a while I didn’t understand why some people didn’t have any comments or trackback but instead encouraged readers to “comment […]

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Wednesday we visited the Tropical Butterfly House at the Pacific Science Center. I’d wandered through a butterfly display at a zoo a couple years ago and left it unimpressed. This one was different. Maybe it was me. Who can say. But I know that I could have stayed there for hours, surrounded by tropical flowers […]

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