As lots of you know (mainly because I wouldn’t stop talking about it), I recently spent a weekend in Rome with Ben. I was prepared for pretty cobbled streets, delicious food, and old, majestic-looking ruins. And while Rome delivered on all of those things, what really surprised me was the light. It was stunning. Maybe [...]

Yes, peaceful. As Eoghan pointed out to me in the car on the way home from a mammoth shopping expedition, merry is nice but isn’t peaceful so much better? Peaceful, as in cut cut each other some slack, as in everyone tries that little bit harder to be less crabby, more patient, to go with [...]

Man, it is COLD. Who cranked off the heat in our absence? I mean, it wasn’t exactly balmy before but  it seems to have gotten a whole lot colder in the week or so we were away. Maybe Singapore’s 34° weather spoiled me, but I’m really wishing I had bought my winter coat before I [...]