I have yet to find my rhythm.  As someone who likes to know how the movie ends before seeing it, and who takes joy in creating routines...

I type these words as my little one slumbers. Having a small child makes me feel like a teenager sometimes; sneaking around whilst she...

“Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blo...

“One must maintain a little bittle of summer, even in the middle of winter.” ― Henry David Thoreau  A pressed palm, the size o...

  "It's only after a bit of breakfast that I'm able to regard the world with that sunny cheeriness which makes a fellow t...

Mornings filled with the melodical babblings of a curiously exuberant 5month old little girl and the rustling of papers crammed into lapt...

Some mornings find me with fresh eyes and a spring in my step, others have to beat through the cobweb of sleep with fists of savage sunsh...

My bulbous belly has not only brought me sore ribs and a sleep cycle that is more akin to a wash cycle than sleep, it has also awakened in ...

  "I'd like Winter if it had more days like this." Those are the words my husband sighed as he closed his eyes and lifte...

As the Starks of Winterfell would say, 'Winter Is Coming.' Winter's scent of moist soil and wet pavement has already begun...

Since getting hitched I have had not one gentleman caller that was not related to me stop by; my husband is now the only one who rings my b...

"in omnibus requiem quaesivi, et nusquam inveni nisi in angulo cum libro"  Translation: Everywhere I have searched for pea...

I lazily awoke to the chimes of the Church bells, echoing through the trees to remind all those who heard that this morning belonged to S...

Salutations readers. Firstly, I must apologise for the minimal posting of late. You see, November is a very busy time for me as it contai...

1 . High tea at The Peninsula. 2. Traditional Yum Cha. 3. National Day Fireworks. 4. View from Revolving restaurant. 5. Sheraton in Shenzhen...

The rain was in a huff today. It tempestuously whirled up into drenching mists from the black tarmac, creating oceans of showering waves t...

My stomach feels like it has been thumped with a mallet like a chicken schnitzel - and it's not due to situps, or exercise of any kin...

 “Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying  of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” James Beard (1...

Happy 2010! Finished with another decade and onto a new one. I wonder what this one will be called, so far I have heard it phrased as the...

I do not like to play favourites; being one half of two siblings, I found it often left the unpicked feeling unwanted and unliked, as as th...