JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

When the girls saw my old toy excavated from the closet during a recent cleaning expedition, they asked: “Do you have any more CDs for it?” Last year, I gave the kids the boom box I had bought for college. It’s now 17 years old and finally stopped playing tapes this past week. The loss […]

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SYLLABICATION: re·li·gion PRONUNCIATION: r-ljn NOUN: 1a. Belief in and reverence for a supernatural power or powers regarded as creator and governor of the universe. b. A personal or institutionalized system grounded in such belief and worship. 2. The life or condition of a person in a religious order. 3. A set of beliefs, values, and […]

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I found myself caught up in these swirling currents in the early 1980s when the faculty of Harvard College asked me to teach a course on Jesus in the newly introduced Moral Reasoning division of the undergraduate curriculum. The faculty had created this program after deciding that the university could no longer ignore a growing […]

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, The courage to change the things I can, And the wisdom to know the difference. – Serenity Prayer As a child I would see this serenity prayer engraved on plaques and hung in homes, not at ours, but at others. It seemed a […]

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This week The Seattle Times has run a series describing Dot-con job: How InfoSpace took its investors for a ride At its peak, InfoSpace was the Northwest’s biggest Internet business, worth more than $31 billion. Jain, a man obsessed with being more successful than Bill Gates, was himself worth $8 billion. He bought a palatial […]

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