JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

My college magazine intrigued me with an article by David L. Marcus titled Close to Home in which he details his experience writing a book about therapeutic schools—last-chance places for teenagers struggling with alcohol, drugs, and impulsiveness. I couldn’t help think about my own community as I read these paragraphs containing what the kids at […]

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From Jerry Large’s March 31 column in the Seattle Times. The Mavin Foundation in Seattle has picked five 20-somethings to travel around the country stirring up conversations about mixed-race people, raising awareness of a mixed-race baby boom and connecting people with resources relevant to mixed-race people and anyone who has contact with them. Of course, […]

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On Monday the weather was a balmy 47 degrees that soon felt like 74 as the sun surprised us in the afternoon. While I worked on the garden, trying to deter a strip of stubborn dandelions, I heard the summer sound of the ice cream truck coming around the corner. The driver is a woman […]

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This year I’m removing my strawberry plants from the garden. Shovel in hand, I noticed the little white blossoms and had to photograph them before they were gone forever. It’s intriguing to watch the shy flowers turn into fruit as the petals fall off and the small yellow center transforms into a big red berry. […]

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Watching the frog eggs develop this week surprised me. I’ve never seen a tadpole appear. The eggs which were dull black dots last Friday when I took them from the pond, now have transformed into transparent sacs, growing in size to accommodate the metamorphosis begnning now. If I move the bowl sometimes I will see […]

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