JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I didn’t post my results from the personality survey Beth Grigg linked last week because I didn’t like them. I scored strong in emotions and intellect, but also strong in dutifulness. Duty. I don’t like that word. It brings to mind a robot executing orders or a legalist lacking love. I do have a [...]

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I didn’t think of this one
One reason to teach your children sign language via Gentle Breezes
glimpse inside another world
The Children of HAN in Somaliland
what else did girls think of?
Through Don Boudreaux I learned about a book I want to read, Girls Think of Everything and Margaret Knight, the [...]

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An article in Saturday’s Bainbridge Review profiled two local residents who struggled with eating disorders and commented on island culture.
Eighteen-year-old Kristen Kelly of Bainbridge Island knows that voice well. But back when her mother Susan tried to get help for the teen, she screamed at her and denied she had a problem. Once, when a [...]

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Tuesday we visited the Port Gamble Museum of Shells and Natural History.

A jewel of a town, Victorian homes alongside the sea, north of the Hood Canal Bridge (this picture taken at Sedgwick Park, south of Port Gamble) I plan to return in the summer when it will be even better.

In the seashell museum I remembered [...]

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While the girls and I were sick earlier this month, we made two dioramas. For one we placed a plastic octopus in the center, with hanging fishes, coral and sea stars. Abigail’s idea to use sandpaper for the sea floor resulted in greater light reflection.
Appropriate Audio Accompaniment for this post:
Seb Paquet in his [...]

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Ever since my picture appeared on the cover of a local publication last year, I’ve realized that others in my community might recognize me now. A few conversations have come from the article. I’m not anonymous any more. So when someone approached me at the grocery store on Wednesday afternoon, asking Are you Julie [...]

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Conversation with my kids on Thursday afternoon:
Me: Do you remember Eric Rice?
Kids: ? [no]
Me: He was with us at dim sum on Sunday.
Kids: At your table or ours?
Me: He was at my table.
Kids: In the orange shirt?
Me: Yes
Kids: He stamped our hands with Mimi’s pens!
Then I showed the kids what Eric had done, creating [...]

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Correct yourself was one of Tim Bray’s points in his talk last weekend at Northern Voice ( live notes). Acknowledging mistakes is part of our humanity, a part, that, as Tim Bray pointed out, often doesn’t exist in other media or publications. I was glad to see his point and now I have a few [...]

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One more reason to return to Vancouver - and soon! -
From the Vancouver Province via U2LOG.Com:

U2 to take over GM Place for month
Dublin rockers here to rehearse before Vertigo tour starts March 28

The Province has learned that U2 — the biggest band in the world — will take over GM Place for a [...]

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After enjoying a wonderful stay in the city this past weekend, Ted and I have been thinking of taking another trip north. Here would be one way to do it:
I read in Lilly Tao’s blog this morning that the Oscar goodie/goody bag/basket 2005 includes

$10,000 package for a three-night stay at the Opus Hotel in Vancouver, [...]

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