JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

This picture of snowberries in our neighborhood is one of my favorite images from December so I thought I would use it to wish everyone a Happy New Year! I liked Ed Cone’s greetings - should I reprint them here? No that wouldn’t have the same effect as saying it myself. I’d rather not compile [...]

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As requested (by Katherine in the comments to this blog entry), I’ve posted a picture of our homemade marzipan from Christmas.
This was the first year we tried to make our own although I’ve thought about it for years. I grew up enjoying marzipan bought from the local grocery store bakery (Safeway) however marzipan fruits no [...]

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Scheherazade in two posts this week pondered risks not taken….
All Request Day: Girly Stuff:

What do I consider failures thus far in my life? The answers that are most resonant involve boys. They’re not so much failures as much as missed opportunities, risks not taken. I should have taken the year after [...]

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An oxymoron, or so it sounds, but I’ve read many refreshing phrases and clumps of sentences in the past day or two that I’d like to link and bookmark for the time being…gems I discovered in my aggregator and want to share with others….
Fred First saw A Certain Order

So I am thankful for dew [...]

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Chris O’Donnell linked to She’s a Flight Risk, memoirs of a post-adolescent international fugitive and the Esquire article The Search for Isabella V.
featuring this anonymous blogger. Chris commented:

Is she even real?
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My original take was that it is a hoax, but after reading the Esquire article I’m not so sure.
Actually, [...]

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John Perry Barlow’s daughter, Amelia, suffered an intense accident while traveling in Europe earlier this month. His post told what it was like to visit her in Austria.

We spent Christmas in the barrens of a German-speaking hospital, Amelia in pain and myself in panic, receiving no gifts beyond one another’s continued presence on this [...]

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Today we took the girls to the Bremerton Ice Arena where we had fun as a family last year.
This time Elisabeth went on the ice too, wearing some of smallest skates in the place. She begged to be like her older sisters, saying “ice please” but when Ted took her for a spin, she didn’t [...]

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I’ve been using a homeschool curriculum list to locate books for Abigail to read. Since she has progressed beyond picture books and easy readers, it’s been difficult to find quality stories that will challenge her skills among all the options at the library. I liked the list and found its selections trustworthy, often skimming the [...]

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Dean Esmay wrote

Here’s Esmay’s Maxim, which I’ve just made up on the spot: any scientific theory, no matter how well-founded or widely accepted, which cannot stand up on its own two legs and face questioning from a young mind without running like a scared puppy to the courts for protection deserves all the kicking around [...]

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As I said I would earlier this year, I read Michelle Malkin’s book, In Defense of Internment: The Case for ‘Racial Profiling’ in World War II and the War on Terror, as soon as it arrived for me at the library last month. I particularly wanted to read it due to the controversy in our [...]

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