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I have had a really shitty week, with all sorts of annoying challenges, sad news and general bad moods all round. Add to that a couple of nights of barely any sleep, and I am a wreck. And this is before we even know how much it’s going to cost us moving our stuff across Read more

It’s only the beginning of March, and yet it feels like 2017 has been around for an eternity. My head hurts with all the news pouring in every day, every hour. Some days I try and stay away from it all, but it’s hard – 2016 has left a huge shadow, and it doesn’t look Read more

Last week, one of those Facebook reminders alerted me to the fact that it was precisely a year ago that we found our house here in Austin. Wow. I remember coming here with E and F, trying to get our heads around the fact that we’d be moving, looking at houses, and getting excited for Read more

I cannot believe this is our second election cycle since moving to the US. Clearly, we’ve been here too long!! I didn’t really want this post to be about the election, as a) I’m so stressed, exhausted and sick to death of it all, and b) everything that could possibly be said about the whole Read more

Monday was our first day of school, first day back to a more normal routine. To me, a new school year always feels so much more “new”, and “fresh start-y” than an actual new calendar year, with all sorts of new resolutions. Of course, this is our first proper school year here in Austin, and Read more

These last few weeks have been difficult, and I don’t mean on a personal level. With the news getting more horrific every week, this year has already become one of the worst I’ve ever witnessed. My only hope is that all the horror of the last few weeks and months will ultimately jolt the world Read more

Time is a strange thing. Time alters the perception of things. In passing, it can make things appear less painful, or more significant, depending on one’s state of mind. But what is really happening when time passes? I feel that time you spend with other people means the longer you spend with them the more Read more

Ok, rain, enough now, the novelty has worn off! Texas weather is simply crazy. I read somewhere that May is the rainiest month of the year, but it’s getting ridiculous. Thunderstorms with incredible lightning day and night, horizontal trees, and rivers of rainwater running down the streets. The next day (or even same afternoon): bright Read more

I’m sitting at a lovely spot, a cafe overlooking the lake. Good coffee. People to watch. Smiles. It’s sunny but not humid-hot, and I feel calm and almost settled. This is where I need to come to write, I realise. I do love my house, but it can be too much of a cocoon, and Read more

It’s been almost 2 months since we moved, and spring has sprung in Austin. Apparently, those summer temperatures we experienced in early February were not the norm, and we’re back to more normal, albeit Austin, weather. So far, we’ve had the full range, including the most almighty thunderstorms I’ve ever seen (and I grew up Read more