JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

This morning the girls and I enjoyed Kathryn Lasky’s The Librarian Who Measured the Earth, the story of scholar and librarian Eratosthenes and how he calculated the world’s circumference more than 2000 years ago. I haven’t written about Technorati tags since the announcement last month but I have been trying to read the discussions happening […]

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Last week, the girls and I made dye from walnuts as Confederate families did for war uniforms. With a hammer, I smashed three dozen shells into small pieces then boiled and steeped them in water for an afternoon. Before we used it as a dye, we strained the mixture and added a little vinegar. I […]

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I’m a bit under the weather and not sure I should attempt a dissection of this Mommy (and Me) piece from Sunday’s New York Times. Not sure I consider myself a mommy blogger either. And as Susan Mernit noted, the New York Times seems to be overdosing on blogs, publishing a blog du jour story […]

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Sick as I was, I stopped by my aggregator from time to time to get a glimpse of the outside world…. Jay McCarthy’s A Letter to Beatrice: breakin’ up is hard to do… and Jay’s writing is classic. Fellow island blogger Chip Gibbons doesn’t know why his post is the number one search result for […]

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Sleeping on the sofa always indicates something is not right at home. Since I woke up sick on Saturday I’ve been alienated from my family by whatever virus has taken over my body. It seems strange to keep my loved ones at arm’s length, withholding hugs and kisses from my kids, waving good night to […]

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