JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Thanks to Doc Searls, this summer I started reading Bernie DeKoven’s Funlog which is certainly a fun blog to read. Earlier this week I noticed his post on The Sack Circle and I couldn’t resist trying a few. I know I’ve written about my conviction for canvas sacks while shopping, but [...]

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Chris Holmes already discovered and posted about my two letters to the editor, one in each island paper this week… so I don’t have to! Thanks!
I wrote a note to the editor of the Bainbridge Islander expressing my gratitude for the recent piece on local bloggers. And I wrote another letter to the Bainbridge [...]

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In the two weeks since the story on local bloggers graced the front pages of the Sun and Bainbridge Islander, it’s been fun to receive others reactions. Friends and neighbors have commented to me. Sometimes people call me a “celebrity” or “famous” but I simply smile in return: funny joke! No strangers have yet approached [...]

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The other day in the van Abigail said:
I’m half Chinese.

I’m half German.

I’m whole American.
I had to correct her on one point. She’s a quarter German, not half.
But I agree with everything else.

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“Happy Holidays” is oxymoronic. At least it seems that way to me many times. I know what happiness is. But I don’t often have it during the holidays.
This week I’ve been wishing I could fast-foward to February. Then again, I wouldn’t want to miss our anniversary at the end of January. But I have been [...]

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While not professionally-decorated turkey cake, I thought that these homemade turkey cookies were fun. The girls and I each drew and cut our own turkey design on paper to use to shape the dough. Then we decorated with an assortment of sprinkles, chocolate chips and almond slices. No meat products were employed in the making [...]

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Friday I wanted to try to write some posts but I ended up spending most of the day brining a turkey. The bird had been a bargain and a bit of an impulse buy. On Thursday we went to visit friends who hosted and cooked most of the meal. But in the grocery store on [...]

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Forgiveness has been on my mind for a while. I’ve written this post and then wondered when I should publish it. Recently it seems that saying sorry has become a popular topic among blogs including The Art of the Apology, A Million Guys in Pajamas and So sorry.
Here is my post…originally written [...]

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But I still take pictures of them! … thanks to my neighbors for sharing the loveliness…

I don’t know the name of this flower, but it reminds me of the scene in a dressing room, someone trying on prom gowns and discarding them in heaps on the floor…

One of the last roses of the year, [...]

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Last month I did something I thought I would never do. One afternoon, I spent a large amount of money on a tiny tube which promised to fix a facial flaw. I succumbed to my own dissatisfaction and surrendered to the cash register.
This product required application twice daily for at least eight days to produce [...]

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