“You’re going alone to India?” “Umm, yeah.” “Alone?” “Yes.” (Actually no, I am going to stuff an entire army of Ninjas in my tote and let them loose at the first hint of trouble.) You may have had a lot of conversations like this. Each time, you try to come up with new and creative […]

“I will lift mine eyes unto the Hills from whence cometh my help.”   I traced the words inscribed on the stone memorial. Beyond the white monument to the late botanist Margaret Legge, flowers spread away in all directions, a riot of colours that swayed slowly in the wind coming down from the mountain slopes. […]