My husband has a new (used) car and the kids have one holiday weekend left before school resumes, so we decide to take a day-trip that is not too far from home. Warburton sounds ideal, not only because of its proximity to Melbourne, but also because my grandparents met in its Seventh-day Adventist church in […]

The heatwave has abated, our children are in school, my husband flies back to Pakistan on the weekend and we have been overly-preoccupied with schedules and cleaning, so on Wednesday morning we throw routine to the wind. Fortified with coffee from Axil Coffee Roasters, we head to Yarra Bend, Melbourne’s largest bushland park. We don’t […]

After planning our move from Karachi, Pakistan to Melbourne, Australia for more than a year, we arrive on Thursday, January 3, at 11 pm. While our first week is exciting, moving in turns out to be even more difficult than we anticipated, with each small win accompanied by a seemingly larger drawback. Back in November, […]

Our cat Zizi left us yesterday, and it was so hard to say goodbye. For weeks we have known that her last day was approaching, but we kept hoping that she would stay with us a little longer. Her hips collapsed two weeks ago. I found her behind the couch, legs splayed out sideways, unable […]