JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

A few friends and I went to make wreaths at Bainbridge Gardens one Saturday afternoon this month. As an experiment, I took a bucket of clippings from the rosemary bush in the garden. The branches made an aromatic wreath that brings holiday spirit to our kitchen. It’s fun to put a candle in the middle. [...]

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Opening a door can mean making a discovery.
Last Monday I opened the door to an antique shop and discovered new things inside myself.

After visiting downtown Poulsbo, over the bridge from the island, I decided, at last, to peek into the antique shops beside the parking lot. From the outside, their wares had looked less than [...]

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While reading the Third Age Carnival hosted by Evelyn Rodriguez earlier this month I saw that my neighbor Jennifer Louden now has a blog. I can still remember when I met her and her husband, soon after they had moved into their house. Jen amazes me. She’s a best-selling author, personal coach, and someone you [...]

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First frost was Saturday morning…possibility of snow this coming week!

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I would give anything I own
Give up my life, my heart, my home
I would give ev’rything I own
Just to have you back again
- Bread

I apologize for the quiet on this blog. But in recent days silence has seemed appropriate. Within a week’s time, three people in three different communities in my life have passed [...]

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This title is a misnomer on two accounts. First, evidence proves that I have not been blogging feverishly, in the sense of rapidly producing posts. Second, I don’t have a fever. But I am sick. I’ve caught a cold and I’m trying to get rid of it. Perhaps it happened as a result of preparing [...]

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I worry. I worry about my kids. I suppose this is a mother’s territory, this enormous ocean of concerns, these waters that threaten to overwhelm me with responsibility and depth.

I remember holding the tiny babies in my arms and wondering if they would learn to walk. The journey from helpless infant, able only to kick [...]

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danah boyd published a passionate and profound piece growing up in a culture of fear: from Columbine to banning of MySpace

The day she posted it, Ted and I had friends staying at our home. I started mentioning danah’s ideas to Ted, asking if he had read her post yet, and it turned into a discussion [...]

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For the record, I’m posting our jack o’lantern pictures from our busy Halloween weekend. The kids chose the designs and I carved them:

Elisabeth’s

Michaela’s

Abigail’s

The girls dressed up as princesses.

My favorite trick-or-treater costume? A friend who came as Valerie Plame…Scary, indeed!

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The communities of the blogosphere are infinite, so it seems, and recently I discovered a sector that was new to me: crime blogs. In September a Seattle Times article quoted The Dark Side, as a blog which contained quotes from the blog of a suspect in a local murder. Since then I’ve been reading Steven [...]

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