​AUDREY CHIN 

The best made holiday plans can be upset. Weather, short-staffed inn-keepers and unforeseen road closures can conspire to turn an...

Be careful what you wish for. Nothing is a perfect circle. That’s life. How we wished for rain the week before! A deluge of blessed...

We found a strangler fig growing in a corner of the bathroom, in a tiny space between the wall tiles and the frosted glass sun-roof. ...

Photo Credit: http://www.etsy.com WE DIDN’T INVITE THEM   I’ve heard them practicing in the park from my study.  I’ve passed them on my...

We don’t eat turkey … PHoto Credit: http://www.chubbyhubby.net Not because we’re vegetarians unfortunately. Unfortunately just because I...

Some say this with disdain. But what’s not to love about buses and train systems that more or less work, even if they’re  stuffed to the...

It’s a boat person’s festival that’s why… When we lived in the US, it was a public holiday, an opportunity for far flung too busy friends...

This is when I step out, new clothes on (even to the underwear inside).  When I breath in, New Year morning midnight air all around.  And...

Photocredit: dogsintouch.com My father has decided to say Grace after 50 years of not doing so.  The reason he’s started again is a video...