JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Last week NPR’s Morning Edition was promoting their interview with singer Patty Scialfa. They aired the piece twice in one hour when I was listening on Wednesday. Not that I minded. It’s worth listening to the clip just to hear her describe what it was like to bring the youngest baby home from the hospital […]

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One of my neighbors saw me on Monday and exclaimed You blogger you! Guess I’m out of the closet now :-)… On Saturday the Bainbridge Island Review published the letter I wrote as a response to the paper’s recent coverage of a blog business on the island. (neither my letter nor the article are on-line). […]

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On my post discussing the Corp of Discovery’s diet, Rayne commented The Corp of Discovery probably did eat that much meat — but the guesstimated daily amount of 8-10 lbs. is probably gross weight, including all skin, sinew, bones, antlers and hooves, less desirable organs or tissue that may not have been consumed as food. […]

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Driving to Oregon this weekend I realized how I’ve adjusted to the island highway. Give me more than two lanes and I begin to feel overwhelmed. Navigating I-5 seems like a nightmare. Too many lanes. Too many trucks. Too much traffic. My shin began to hurt from the stop-and-go, an unfamiliar exercise. I realized how […]

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At Fort Clatsop, we heard a presentation describing what the Corp of Discovery ate during their winter camp time. Apparently it was neither Lewis nor Clark but one of the privates who recorded the number of 131 elk. This number has been used as evidence that the men each ate 8 – 10 pounds of […]

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