JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Wednesday the girls saw their first dinosaurs when we visited the Pacific Science Center in Seattle. In order to get to other exhibits, we had to walk through this one first. As soon as we turned the corner into the dinosaur room, the girls cried and clinged to me. Giant robotic lizards were devouring each […]

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Summertime reminds me that we live in a tourist town. Of course, some of the people who live here would call us tourists, as we Leungs – and thousands of others – are recent immigrants to the island, lacking a pedigree dating back to the years of summer cabins and intense seasonal migration. In the […]

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While I was thinking about Robert Scoble’s post and book review titled Did China beat Christopher Columbus by decades? I read Dare Obasanjo’s response. I often think to myself that there is a lot of background racism in the United States. By background racism, I mean racism that is so steeped into the culture that […]

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While walking back from Pike Place Market, I saw this T-shirt in a shop window. My name is “No No Bad Dog” What’s yours? It’s not just dogs who are named No No. Plenty of people, especially children, probably think they share that name also. Seeing this shirt, I asked myself: How often am I […]

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Via email I found this Rachael Combe piece in Elle magazine: The Guilty Bride described how her feelings about marriage and weddings have changed with time. But that’s the truth: It’s as if I’ve found my calling. Ever since O. proposed, I’ve found it hard to think about anything but him and our wedding. I […]

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