JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

A few days ago I wrote a piece exploring the lines and limits of peer pressure and parental responsibility in society. I received insightful comments and I especially wanted to respond in another post to the thoughtful ones left by Philippe Boucher (who now has a Voice of Bainbridge blog! yippee!) and Paul [...]

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Michaela, Elisabeth and I went to the post office yesterday. As we were leaving I saw maple leaves on the ground in the afternoon light and I was glad I had my camera handy.

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Lies My Teacher Told Me is for anyone who has ever fallen asleep in history class.
Or so it says on the back of the book by James W. Loewen.
I don’t fit into this category. I don’t remember ever falling sleep in history class. But I wasn’t that excited by it. I took history throughout [...]

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Actually I should be paying the bills tonight…so I should go do that, but for a moment, here are some quick book reviews from the past month…
Little Black Book of Stories by A.S. Byatt and Sweet Land Stories by E.L. Doctorow
I read both of these on our San Francisco trip - on [...]

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Earlier this week, the girls and I read Tut’s Mummy by Judy Donnelly, a story of Tutankhamen’s funeral and Howard Carter’s 1922 discovery of the tomb. Abigail and Michaela seemed to like it and asked me to read it again and again. I was a bit perplexed by their fascination, but then I remembered how [...]

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With the recent hurricanes, I’ve been watching bloggers who live in the affected areas. I’m glad Rod K. is okay. It all must be taking a toll. Yesterday he wrote Are we done yet?:

I was more resigned this time around. It was more like, go ahead and do whatever you’re going to do, [...]

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I’m starting to believe medication is a miracle - that is if one can afford to fill a prescription. My doctor gave me some trial samples and I called to get a prescription for more. However, my pharmacy notified me that our insurance would not cover this particular drug. So I had to go back [...]

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I didn’t write posts or read blogs during our travels to San Francisco in August, but as we drove, I imagined how other bloggers would have reacted, had they come along with us for our road trip….here are my notes (finally) posted…
If I were Sam Ruby, I would have watched a few DVDs and made [...]

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After coming home from a birthday party today, Abigail started sorting through her loot, examining the labels on the treats. Since she doesn’t often eat candy or even see it, she had a few questions and quizzical expressions.
Abigail asked, “What is N - E - R - D - S?”
Ted and I started smiling. [...]

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This week the girls and I read Hill of Fire by Thomas P. Lewis, which describes the 1943 creation and eruption of Paricutin in Mexico, one of the first times in recorded human history that people have observed the birth of a volcano.
The author described the time and place of the villagers with details [...]

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