JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

The title above is a bit exaggeration, but that’s how I’ve felt after our return from a week’s vacation. Our time spent together as a family resting in the wilderness of Sunriver, Oregon was refreshing. But it is the acceleration required to conform to our sudden September routines that has left me longing for the […]

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Yes, this is the reason why my hands hurt… I’ve been bending bones! Actually, the picture above is the result of soaking a (cooked) chicken bone in vinegar for ten days. Acid depletes the bone of calcium, making it rubbery and easy to bend. A fun experiment for the kids to try, although at first […]

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Steven Noels’ self-description…including I think a lot, about all sorts of things. Not all deep thoughts, though. I can be pretty silent when doing all that thinking. Katherine illustrated God’s perspective with beauty It struck me that God, the One outside of time, delights in creating ephemeral beauty such as delicate flower buds and petals. […]

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Like The Redhead, I have a hard time asking for things. Instead I overload myself until I collapse. I’m that proverbial camel seeing how many straws it will take to break her back, thinking I can handle it all by myself. I’m okay. Really. I’m fine. Then, as I lie there in the dirt, I […]

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Grant the other day described “telling stories” at the University of Chicago Every institution has these stories, and they all work pretty much the same way. They are one of the ways we induct people into the organization. I’m guessing that if we join Microsoft, we would be told little stories about “Bill.” These stories […]

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