JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

The catalogs have come with their cover models adorned in long skirts and turtlenecks, swathed in suede and scarves, burdened with coats and boots, announcing the arrival of autumn. September has seen temperatures in the sixties and seventies, still considered summer for Seattle, with blue skies to boot. Yet the morning air brings a nip [...]

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I’ve updated my blogroll in the sidebar of this blog, including my lists of local bloggers. The Technorati feed Mike Houser created has been helpful for finding new local bloggers or even reading stories about the island such as this message in a bottle found at Agate Pass. Other blogs I’ve discovered through Bainbridge Buzz [...]

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Sunriver

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One spring morning, I observed a strange social interaction while I was walking in downtown Bainbridge Island, along Winslow Way. Near the crosswalk in front of the grocery store, I noticed a few women starting a conversation as their paths intersected. Without “hi” or “hello”, as I remember, they suddenly started saying sentences such as [...]

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On Tuesday, with friends, we visited Old Man House Park in Suquamish, with a view of Agate Pass Bridge connecting Bainbridge Island to the Kitsap Peninsula.

Sarah van Gelder wrote an excellent piece in the Yes magazine winter 2005 describing how this historical piece of land was recently returned to the Suquamish tribe.

The beach is covered [...]

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In It doesn’t happen every day I mentioned Nancy Blakey’s Eagle Harbor Bookstore appearance on September 22 to talk about her essay on sex ed. I wasn’t able to be there but Chris Holmes once again lets me know how it was.

Jim Thomsen of the Kitsap Sun stopped by and left a comment on my [...]

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Often as I look through the blogs in my aggregator, I find stories of birth and death, loss and love. As I read them all together it becomes a big picture of who we are as people, how we live as humans, a roller coaster ride through milestones of memories, from sorrow to joy, overwhelming, [...]

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While I don’t usually critique People magazine covers on this blog, I can’t resist commenting on the version I spied near the grocery store checkout earlier this week. The juxtaposition of hurricane stories with the Best & Worst Dressed pronouncements seemed worse than usual to me. At first glance it’s unclear whether the clothing coverage [...]

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Jenn of Mommy Needs Coffee, Blogher Mommyblogger extraordinaire, went to Houston to care for her mom who may be near the end of her life - and then she had to evacuate. Her husband has updated the blog, posting after battling traffic and running low on gas, she decided to return to her parents home [...]

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