Hello! We just came back from Singapore where we spent the week, since our youngest daughter (getting big now, already 13!) had dental surgery where all her four wisdom teeth came out. My poor baby girl! She was so brave and we tried to make the best of it, ordering a lot of ice cream from room se…

Hello friends! I feel much better now, did I tell you I had some sort of Asian virus that completely knocked me out? Well — it was interesting to see the inside of a Jakarta hospital emergency unit. The doctors and the nurses were amazing, I loved them all and after they gave me morphine for the…

“Writers fish for the right words like fishermen fish for, um, whatever those aquatic creatures with fins and gills are called.” — Jarod Kintz  

Yesterday, August 17, was Indonesia’s Independence Day, celebrated all over the country. About a year ago, my husband and I had occasion to visit the place where the Indonesian flag was born: Hotel Majapahit in Surabaya. The days following the Indonesian Declaration of Independence, on August 17 in…

“You’re only given one little spark of madness. You mustn’t lose it.” Robin Williams, July 21, 1951 – August 11, 2014.   Yesterday the sad news of actor Robin Williams’ passing reached us. Immediately my mind filled with the many moments of joy he brought to me and my family. Only a couple of…

We’ve had wonderful days at the beach here in Phuket, chasing the waves and relaxing in the sand. I brought my small Canon powershot and took some pictures of this paradise and my favorite people. 🙂 Just click on a picture and the gallery will show in a lightbox. Thanks for stopping by, Wishing yo…

“The truth isn’t always beauty, but the hunger for it is.” Nadine Gordimer, Nov 20, 1923 – July 13, 2014  

Yesterday I brought the camera going through Pejaten and Kemang in the south of Jakarta. These small backstreets are only minutes away from the busy main roads, but still they feel like a different world. I almost forget about the crowded streets and imagine myself in a village — the laundry hangi…