JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

Easter morning I woke early and drove to the library. There I placed a stepping stone for my brother Jim beside his tree in the island’s Cancer Awareness Garden. I’ve been waiting and wanting to do this for a while and Easter morning seemed an appropriate date.
To make the stone, I woke early Friday and [...]

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It recently become apparent to me that I needed to teach my children about appropriate physical affection. I needed to teach them that there are different kinds of kisses. Some are shared between friends. Some are for sisters. And some are for mommies and daddies.
Via Ghost Words ( found via Susan Kitchens) Sunday morning I [...]

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something I didn’t know until my 2-year-old told me…

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When Ted’s traveling I enjoy sneaking a peek at his magazines before he does. This week I discovered a copy of Make in the mailbox. During mealtimes I’ve browsed through the magazine. It’s filled with excellent photography, wonderful illustrations with directions that seem clearer to me than other instructions I’ve read, for example, in Sunset [...]

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There’s been talk of both a camping trip before Gnomedex, as proposed by Robert Scoble, and also a Bowen Island FamilyCon in Canada sometime this summer. I’m not sure if we will be able to go to either of these but we’d like to. We’d need to work out the dates (also prepare for Gnomedex [...]

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She speaks of dreams and helps them happen…thanks to Liz Ditz who (in an email conversation following her comment on my Missing my instruction manual blog post) sent me tips and a helpful site where I learned how to put Abigail’s hair in a bun!

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Who me?
Beth Grigg and Jeff Youngstrom have each posted on procrastination recently.
Why do we procrastinate? I know I procrastinate when the task ahead seems too enormous or intense. I procrastinate when what I should be doing seems unpleasant. When I want to be creative and frivolous. Or when I feel too tired [...]

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Michael Hanscom earlier this week linked to Tony Pierce’s How to Blog, critiquing it point by point. It’s an interesting read, both Michael’s and Tony’s ideas. In point #22, Tony advised:

when in doubt review something. theres not enough reviews on blogs. review a movie you just saw, a tv show, a cd, a kiss [...]

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Although my name has been mentioned (kindly) in the discussions on diversity and gender in blogs, I was reluctant to post my opinion. I hesitate because I often understand and experience both sides of an issue. I also would rather write and do what I can to promote others in an organic way than [...]

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Joanne announced her book Song of the Azalea: Memoir of a Chinese Son by Kenneth Ore with Joann Yu now available for pre-order at Amazon.ca.

In 1917, Ore’s mother was sold to a wealthy Chinese businessman by her opium-addicted father. Rather than becoming a concubine, she was educated as a doctor and assigned to the [...]

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